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Originally Posted by Suave
Depends on one's priorities I suppose. A person who is not "flaky" would consider it a high priority to be on time, at every appointment, et cetera. I don't think it's a coincidence that a large portion of, for example, geniuses, tend to be flaky. They have other priorities (such as their area of expertise) to which they devote more of their time.
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This is a convincing argument for believing either that you often flake on commitments and do so because you think most everything you do is more important than other people's time, or that you are just especially good at making up excuses to avoid being hurt or insulted by the people who flake on you.
Aren't geniuses - real ones (not just any brilliant well-educated person) - exceptionally good at one or a few things at the cost of many other things? The fact that most people will value a genius highly for excelling at what they do does not mean that their inappropriate or negative behaviors should be considered appropriate and good. I said it once and I'll say it again - flaking is about not having enough respect for the people who will be let down or inconvenienced. Call it "different priorities" if you like.
While I have no interest in actually discovering if the assertion that geniuses tend to be flaky is true, I would wager that geniuses make up a negligible portion of all the flakes in the world.
Or maybe we just have different definitions of "flake". When I say it, I mean someone who says they will do something and then fails to do it. I don't include people who avoid making commitments in the first place. Those people are just flighty... or, I suppose in rare cases, they are geniuses with higher priorities.