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"I choose a lazy person to do a hard job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."-Bill Gates
I heard this quote from my brother. I can't explain how much I love it.
What is laziness?
According to psychmechanics.com, "Laziness is an unwillingness to spend energy. It is an unwillingness to do a task we perceive to be difficult or uncomfortable."
When is a person being lazy? / Who is a lazy person?
According to psychologytoday.com, "A person is being lazy if he is able to carry out some activity that he ought to carry out, but is disinclined to do so because of the effort involved. Instead, he carries out the activity perfunctorily; or engages in some other, less strenuous or less boring activity; or remains idle."
Laziness is usually bad
A lazy person does his work lazily and he is often found late in submitting work, hustling in the deadline, etc. This may lead to dissatisfaction with other people around him. Almost everybody is lazy to different extents and different types. Some are stupid lazy, some are extremely lazy, and some are inventive lazy. A combination of laziness and stupidity is dangerous and harmful to everybody. The quality of a stupid lazy's work is horrible and he often messes things up. This kind of laziness is very much bad.
Laziness is sometimes a blessing
A combination of laziness and an inventive mind is something that is favorable. An inventive lazy guy always looks for a shortcut and wants it to be done quickly because he is too lazy to do the full work for a long time. This kind of laziness leads to:
- working with greater efficiency,
- invention of new techniques,
- finding a shortcut,
- saving time.
An example of good laziness
It's a true story. The students of a class had to submit a seminar report. To write the seminar paper, students needed to copy texts from pdf copies of different research papers. When text is copied to MS word, paragraph structure usually gets distorted because of unwanted line breaks. The first boy of the class started to correct the paragraphs line by line. He was very punctual and hardworking. On the other hand, a lazy student was unwilling to do his work; the labor it takes was too much and boring for him. Then he started to find a way. He searched on youtube and eventually found a shortcut. The shortcut is: ctrl+h and then putting a space in the replace box and ^p in the find box, then click replace all. Ta-da! How fast! On the other side, the first boy was working hard on correcting paragraph distortions. Then the lazy one taught his friend the way to correct those. Thus, the lazy one won.
How to be a productive lazy guy
1. Don't start your work without planning. Make a nice plan, decide the way to follow, and think about how you can finish the work in the shortest possible time without decreasing quality.
2. The conventional way may be less efficient (i.e. takes longer time, more hard); find a better way or invent one.
3. Be confident.
4. Observe others and see how they go through; choose the best one among all the methods you see useful.
Conclusion
I love being a lazy guy. My laziness makes my life soooo easy. You should be too. But remember, always try to be a smart lazy guy, not a stupid one.
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