There must be a better way, perhaps, an easier way. Throughout the history, many great inventions are born from laziness with the desire of convenience. As such, the wheels are invented to eliminate the need to move objects from pulling or carrying. Laziness takes place in many parts of the human development. Lazy people are more creative and often come up with innovative ideas because they have more free time. Whether it is the way our body is structured or the inventions that we created, there is laziness that is involved in it. Laziness gives individuals the time to think of inventions which no one has thought about before. Although laziness is a bad habit, it is one of the key factors that helps society to efficiently progress.
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Bill Gates once said, “I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it” ("Choose a Lazy Person”). Transportations such as cars, trains, and planes were invented to meet our desire of convenience. Those inventions are not considered a need in our life, but instead a want for a faster and better method of traveling. To put it differently, people want an alternative way to travel than the already existing methods. They wanted a lazier way. “All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness” (Kennedy). The technological invention is a mark of laziness; it is inherent in inventions and a sign of one’s creativity and desire that drives their …show more content…
When a person spend time doing nothing, but thinking. In Csikszentmihalyi 's book Creativity, he wrote “I think that it is very important to be idle. I mean, they always say that Shakespeare was idle between plays. I am not comparing myself to Shakespeare, but people who keep themselves busy all the time are generally not creative. So I am not ashamed of being idle” (Koski). Idle does not mean doing absolutely nothing and wasting valuable time. It means to focus towards something with dedication, not rushing, or not feeling overwhelmed. Being lazy allows one to think, and to think creatively. Referring to ancient Oriental philosopher, Seppo Kimanen reminds us that human brains are most active during a complete
Anxiety. Regret. Frustration. Restlessly glancing at the clock, cringing every time I do. Staring at a blinking cursor, waiting for inspiration. Spending a restless night trying to squeeze out something to turn in the next day. This is a process known all too well by me, and most high schoolers in America, one known as: Procrastination. Procrastination is something easily avoided, and yet, seems to be one of the biggest causes for low grades in most students’ lives. It’s a tempting prospect, putting off your responsibilities to do something enjoyable, but it should be avoided at every possibility. Procrastination causes your grades to suffer, causes your mental health to suffer, and causes you to learn bad habits for the future.
Christopher Morley attempts to show his audience the benefits of laziness through appeals to pathos. With the energetic use of high level language, Morley transforms people’s view on laziness from having a negative connotation to being one of sophistication and wisdom.
The “On Laziness” essay, written by Christopher Morley argues that philosophical laziness is a beneficial trait to possess. He illustrates this by using techniques such as humor, formal diction, and irony to convince his audience that is made up of lazy and industrious people.
Over the course of human history, we as a species have progressed an unimaginably large amount. The source of this progression? Innovation. Without innovation, there is no progression. This then begs another question: why do we innovate? The answer to this is simply that we have issues that we must overcome. We have to innovate to solve our problems, but then those leads to more problems, and therefore more innovation. Although this is a large scale example, the spirit of invention is also important in everyday life as we face our own smaller-scale problems. Without invention, how can we expect to get anywhere? How can we ever accomplish anything, or resolve anything? Without invention, we wouldn’t have electricity, automobiles, or television. We also wouldn’t have success, joy, or relationships, as there are problems that we must solve to
“With every new innovation, cultural prophets bickered over whether we were facing a technological apocalypse or a utopia” (Thompson 9). This quote states that with every significant break-through with technology, people contemplate whether it will have a positive or negative effect on mankind. Technology allows for external memory sources, connections to databases, and it allow easy communication between people. Thompson then directly counters Carr’s hypothesis and states that “[c]ertainly, if we are intellectually lazy or prone to cheating and shortcuts, or if we simply don’t pay much attention to how our tools affect the way we work, then yes - we become… over reliant” (Thompson 18). In his opinion, “[s]o yes, when we’re augmenting ourselves, we can be smarter… But our digital tools can also leave us smarter even when we’re not actively using them” (Thompson
Students are deprived from there leaning do to the tardy policy. A policy that is unfair this tardy policy makes students serve a 30 min detention if there even a second late to class and after multiple absences or tardies you can face legal consequences. There's many reasons why students may be late for example students need to take the city buss, bikes ,cars to school but there's always traffic so sometimes it's not the students fault , students shouldn't be given a 30 minute detention for being a couple of minutes late.
Like an experienced politician, Christopher Morley composes his essay and weaves his words in such a way that causes his readers to believe and support his claim that laziness is not the weakness that we currently recognize it to be, but rather it is an important asset to have. In “On Laziness”, Morley utilizes a casual tone, combines complex diction with simple syntax, and uses examples that allow for a sense of logic, leaving the reader no choice but to consider his claims, and maybe even believe them.
In the July 1997 issue of Commentary, James Q. Wilson challenges the consensus among academia’s finest regarding the automobile in his bold article, Cars and Their Enemies. Directed towards the general public, his article discredits many of the supposed negatives of the automobile raised by experts, proves that the personal car is thriving and will continue to thrive because it meets individual preference over other means of transportation, as well as presents solutions to the social costs of cars. Wilson emphasizes that no matter what is said and done in eliminating the social costs of the automobile, experts are not going to stop campaigning against it.
Christopher Morley’s “On Laziness” presents his ideas of laziness and persuades us that it is a matter of good. Morley reasonably argues that people can be successful and can potentially belong to a higher class if they were so inclined to be “lazy”. He achieves this goal through an appeal to human nature and rhetorical effect; Although Morley also presents the audience through an educational and good-natured tone, using to diction to develop style.
Another great way to waste time is to daydream. I can sit for fifteen minutes or more before I realize that I should be doing something else. I usually think about something that happened that day, and then imagine an alternate ending. Or I will imagine calling someone on the phone, and play out the entire conversation in my head. Sometimes I look out the window and look at all the trees, clouds, squirrels, or even the grass in my backyard. This is a great procrastination method when combined with a simple cleaning task, like cleaning out a backpack.
Procrastination & nbsp; & nbsp; It is Monday morning and I have slept in, thanks to Thanksgiving. In fact, it's twelve o'clock and I am free for the afternoon. As usual, I sit in. front of the television after I clean myself up, staring endlessly at the screen with my finger clicking on the remote.
The definition of procrastination is: the action of delaying or postponing something. Tim Urban, who conducts a speech called Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator for TED in 2016, explains that every human is a procrastinator- some more than others. I agree with everything he says in his speech because I can connect with every piece of evidence he claims, mostly including that there is a “Panic Monster” that pops up in your brain when you are close to a deadline and haven’t gotten anything done, especially when it comes from why I’m always so stressed out about school. There are two different kinds of procrastination: deadline and non-deadline. (Urban, 2016) Everyone that I have ever met is a procrastinator
Those Romans and Greeks were able to enjoy their time of relaxation, using procrastination as a healthy tool rather than a bad habit. Even wise leaders use it! What an amazing realization that we get procrastination from somewhere. Jon Olson wrote an article on procrastination because it affects the workers at his fabrication company.
...the demands of driving, but the fundamental problem may be the behaviour of the individuals willing to pick up the technology" (Reimer, 2009).
Every now and then we don’t meet our own expectations, whether it was not getting the score you wanted on a test or getting the promotion you wanted at your work. Was it because your IQ wasn’t high enough to reach your expectations or was it because you lacked self-discipline. Contrary to the popular belief that IQ determines academic performance some people have, self-discipline exceeds IQ in predicting academic performance. The purpose of this paper is to define self-discipline, discuss the statement that self-discipline outdoes IQ in predicting academic performance and provide strategies to maximize self-discipline in a tertiary learning environment. First, this paper will define self-discipline. Second, it will discuss the statement Self-discipline outdoes IQ in predicting academic performance. Finally is will provide strategies to maximize self-discipline in a tertiary learning environment