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Bill Gates thinks you should hire lazy people. No seriously. He famously said: “I choose a lazy person to do hard work. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
I disagree with the premise. Choosing a person who will do a job the “easy way” and solve the difficult problem in front of you may be better than having your most ambitious team do it. The hard way is often not the best way. In fact, in the startup world, over-delivering can be just as dangerous as under-delivering when time and money are limited resources and a lesser solution would have solved the problem effectively. Picking the low-hanging fruit doesn’t make a person lazy, nor does it make them take the obvious path, or actually take a vacation. It makes them better at prioritizing, efficient workers, and more resilient people.