This is an instance of the general issue of conflict across, what I like to call, the salesperson-slacker spectrum.
Most researchers/academics lie somewhere on this spectrum. (Well I guess most human beings involved in any activity probably).
On the one end are salespeople who love to make a mountain out of a molehill they just discovered. On the other, slackers are like the perfectionists who never get anything done because they never resolved their analysis-paralysis.
There are very few who are exactly in the middle of the spectrum. The middle is a point of unstable equilibrium. You have to work very hard to stay there and can easily fall off to one side or the other.
Most researchers/academics lie somewhere on this spectrum. (Well I guess most human beings involved in any activity probably).
On the one end are salespeople who love to make a mountain out of a molehill they just discovered. On the other, slackers are like the perfectionists who never get anything done because they never resolved their analysis-paralysis.
There are very few who are exactly in the middle of the spectrum. The middle is a point of unstable equilibrium. You have to work very hard to stay there and can easily fall off to one side or the other.