They’ll push others to their max, let ego and adrenaline do the damage, then step in only if the numbers still make sense.

Who cares how fast the player ran the 40-yard dash at the NFL combine if they are always hurt and can't play.

Less adrenaline.

Quote from @Michael Miller: And plz be cognizant of the looong dash that you allow in your posts!

Criminals are typically high or on an adrenaline rush and won't think of checking for armed bystander's, not to mention it's not that noticable (most people think it's a phone at first glance).

Stop thinking that just a touch of Marxism here, a dash of "take from the ___" will be good.

If you stop seeing yourself as how you described in your last response, apply a dash of empathy, there's a possibility that you can be seen as a solution.

I've participated in hundreds of 1031 exchanges at this point, most of them as a buyer's agent, never once has there been a stressful, mad dash to get something under contract on the 45th day. 

Sure there tattooed head to toe, swear like a sailor, run on nicotine and adrenalin, but there whole world is as a "builder" mindset; what they can touch, see, control, create, destroy.

I know real estate is pretty local, and looks like you might be speaking to national trends mostly, but I'll tell you what, there is a pretty interesting mad dash to the end of the year unlike i've seen before.