Thursday, March 16, 2006

laziness and progress




I read this somewhere and loved it. People keep on critisizing laziness without realizing its not necissity but laziness which is the mother of all invention. Read on you will love it.

Laziness is the impulse to avoid work and this admirable attribute drives all progress in civilization. However, instead of being celebrated as it should be, laziness is reviled. Tragically, throughout one’s schooling and continuing through one’s professional career, a person who happens to be blessed with the glorious God-given asset of laziness is brow-beaten and insulted by parents, teachers, and employers to forsake it.

Teachers et al fail to appreciate that laziness is responsible for most of humanity’s advances. Let’s face it: the guy who invented the sail was fed up with rowing. The first soul to hop on the back of a horse was too lazy to walk any more. Every major progressive step in society was driven by someone trying to get out of doing any work. Each knew, deep down, that there is always an easier, faster, cheaper, safer, better way of accomplishing a task and that hard work is completely and utterly unnecessary, besides being a monumental waste of life.

So instead of culturing a population of creative, inventive, artistic, peaceful souls who are blissfully basking in their laziness, guiltlessly avoiding all work, and reaping enormous financial, emotional, spiritual, and healthful fruits as a result, our collective mindset has produced a society of superficial, stress-out, unfulfilled hard workers, who achieve little more than a pittance in their lifetimes and then die young.

You do not achieve breathtatking results by working long and hard. The true secret of success lies in leveraging/multiplying power and effectiveness. When that happens, it takes less effort to accomplish more.

Here’s the good news. There are easy ways to multiply the power of all your resources – your energy, your time, your skills, your brain power, your passion, your money, etc. You just need to know where and how to look for them. And, of course, you need to take the time to look.

Unfortunately people have bought into the concept of hard work so completely, they are blinded by it and they have sold their souls for skimpy paychecks instead of looking for better, easier, lazier ways that are many times more lucrative. It’s sad because it is so preventable.

Hard work is a superficial approach. And superficial approaches are always weak and ineffectual.

Hard work is just not necessary. There is ALWAYS an easier, more effective way of accomplishing the same thing. If you are working hard, it means you aren’t using your intelligence or creativity to find the “lever” that takes the work out of a task. Those who are motivated by laziness take the time to find that lever and therefore avoid the short-term and long-term misery of hard work. As a bonus, as if avoiding work was not reward enough, they also get rich.

24 comments:

vindhyavasini said...

i have always followed better lazy way at every step in my life (though i haven't invented anything) and that’s why I get so much spare time that I used to say “I do nothing and I m always free“ all i do is to follow a very simple principle, that i read in IInd std, "work while u work play while u play"….. but i had never thought about it, at least this way, never.. and the most impressing thing in this article is the way of expressing ur ideas...its elegant...ur writing skills r really amazing... u should go 4 writing books….i had some ideas i thought i should share them.. though i m not a good writer even then i will try to express my views with my handicapped English.

Edison had a remarkable aptitude for inventing new things.... he tried 2000 experiments before he got any valuable result... but that result wasn't because of his laziness, it was because of his craving and ultimate hard work for "a better way of accomplishing a task".

lets talk something from ur references...i have tried horse riding and i can assure u horse riding is not such an easy task... u have got to be james bond if u r trying it first time and specially when u have never seen any one riding ever before in ur life (as it was the case with that first soul)....in case of that Ist soul, walking would have been much easier, faster(it will take too much time to get control over horse), cheaper ( u might have to pay ur doctor), safer (very obvious) but obviously walking can never be better way of accomplishing this task and one has to use his intelligence, creativity, innovative ideas and a bit hard work to capture this "new batter method".

it seems like i m trying to contradict ur ideas but that’s not the case… all u need to do is to look in a bit different way....here u have to append this statement with the definition of laziness that ""u become lazy while performing a particular task when u don't wish to do that."" and many inventions had been a result of this kind of laziness.

""You do not achieve breathtaking results by working long and hard. The true secret of success lies in leveraging/multiplying power and effectiveness. When that happens, it takes less effort to accomplish more.
Hard work is just not necessary. There is ALWAYS an easier, more effective way of accomplishing the same thing. If you are working hard, it means you aren’t using your intelligence or creativity to find the “lever” that takes the work out of a task.""
i think at this time u need to find that "lever"... i don't know what project they have given u but i m sure whatever it is, it can be done in a better lazy way which needs less hard work. just kidding don't take last line seriously.

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