What It's Like Inside the Head of a Reactant Person

I wonder why this article hasn't been more welcomed here. Maybe I'm missing something. To me the concept of reactance is a clue to some situations in which I failed to get to work however hard I wanted to.

In "How to start a startup" [1] Paul Graham mentions he feels like having been a bad employee. Not intending to compare to him, I wonder if reactance could explain why a competent person may feel hopeless at first.

[edit] But I realize that what I found the most interesting and what I am really commenting about is another article linked from this one: "Why Controlling Bosses Have Unproductive Employees" [2]

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html foot note 8

[2] http://blogs.hbr.org/research/2010/05/why-controlling-bosses...