Below is what Moody says about Boice's quick starters and their aim for balance in personal and professional activities.
Quick starters aim for balance.
But collegial, according to Boice, Donald Jarvis, and others, must also mean building positive relationships with colleagues on one's own and other de partments, working up collaborative projects with colleagues next door or continents away, and expanding one's professional support system first begun perhaps in graduate school. Balancing the functions of collaborative colleague, productive scholar, and effective teacher is extremely difficult, but quick starters work intensely on their coordination and timing. Protection of their private personal space and commitments is very important. Rather than feeling overwhelmed and desperate, quick start ers try to stay calm and work for balance, much like performing tai chi. Balance is possible when one is striving for competency but probably never possible when one's hidden agenda is perfection.