Many people go about their lives cycling through the routines of society. After experiencing the mundane routines of everyday life, some may succumb to lethargy and apathy without realizing it. These people often ask themselves why is it that their lives and the world around them do not seem to make any positive progression even after reaching adulthood. One answer is laziness. This personality trait can easily grow and become a negative impact if not kept in check. Its adverse effects, such as low moral integrity, mental stagnation, and intellectual degradation, on a person and the world around them is a topic that was written about by the writer, Ernest Smartt. In one of his essays, “The Negative Effects of Laziness”, Smartt goes through …show more content…
A prime example of such is a secondary school student who does not wish to do the tedious activity of schoolwork. In such an early period of one’s academic career, it is not difficult to breeze through middle school and high school with minimal effort. A student can easily copy another student’s homework or class handout with the teachers being none the wiser. Because of how easy it is to pass classes with a C average and earn a diploma; the trait of laziness in a similar student grows to become a greater problem in the future. Once in the work force, the same students who were too lazy to do their own schoolwork would act just as lazy in their workplace, believing it would be just as easy to get through as high school. Smartt adds that lazy people “tend to handover their work” to more “responsible workers”, who will definitely do the tasks needed (2013). This is true as this act of laziness is similar to a student who copies another’s homework. The trait of laziness is then taken to a new level as procrastination, deception, and lethargy ensue; thus lowering the individual’s own moral integrity. With lowered moral integrity in his or her’s work, the individual’s relationship with his or her’s colleagues is also penalized. This person may be accustomed to repeatedly handing off tasks and skipping shifts, which would not bode well for him or her. Colleagues would in turn become fed up with the lazy actions …show more content…
Simple acts of laziness may seem harmless, but can cause someone to develop mental stagnation, intellectual degradation, and lowered moral integrity. This way of living can only do damage to lethargic individual and those around him or her. Job loss, aggravation of mental health, and degradation of physical health are all possibilities that could be led up to by allowing oneself to succumb to the temptations of a lazy, lethargic way of life. People must do the the best they can in the one life they get, as opposed to idly wasting
In order to make these appeals to pathos, he presents laziness as a solution to some of man’s greatest desires. As a society, one of our major problems is happiness. Many people live their lives as sad drones stumbling through whatever life throws at them. Morley promises happiness to the “thoroughly and philosophically slothful.” He also assures the reader that the lazy man does not have the responsibilities of “the bustling man.” In more recent times stress has become a major problem for America; people adopt pills, books, candles, and even whole lifestyle changes trying to find a solution to the stress. Morley presents a resolution. One of man’s greatest desires is to be liked and respected. Morley comes out and says it very bluntly, “People respect laziness” (Morley 65). He later states that if one stays lazy through and through, that people will let you be. Too many times people have the tendency to get involved in others. When one presents themselves as a lazy man, the intruders will pass by and allow one to continue
As a chronic procrastinator myself I would have to say from experience that I do more often than not make a decision to procrastinate. When I procrastinate it is most times because I believe that I don’t need the time that I am given to get my work done, or simply that I don’t want to work on the project that day. In a paper written by a Serendip Student entitled “Procrastination: Habit or Disorder,” the author sheds light on the psychological view point of procrastination. The author breaks it up into two categories, behavioral procrastination and decisional procrastination. The author relates behavioral procrastination to self-handicap, meaning that those people use procrastination as an excuse to blame something for the reason that they did not pass that test. In this article, the author uses an experiment conducted by Ferrari and Tic, “participants (men and women) perform an identical task twice. In the first study, participants were notified that they would be evaluated on their performance of the task. Time was allotted for practice or engaging in fun activities. Results found that participants procrastinated for 60% of the time. The second study described the identical task as a fun game. Results of activity during the time allotted showed that procrastinators, in comparison
The vice that I have decided to examine further is that of spiritual apathy. According to DeYoung, spiritual apathy can be described as “comfortable indifference to duty and neglect of other human beings’ needs. If you won’t work hard, you don’t care enough.” (81). DeYoung goes on to say that it “becomes a sin not merely because it makes us lazy, but because of the lack of love that leis behind that laziness” (81). Essentially, spiritual apathy is not giving enough attention or effort to tasks that are pressing and important. This vice can be recognized in our daily lives with close examination. During my week examining this vice in relation to my own life, I became aware of how much time I actually spend doing things, that while important,
In the book The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play by Neil Fiore, PH.D the author explains that procrastination is often confused with laziness and frowned upon, although procrastination is actually a coping mechanism we use to deal with the stress and anxiety associated with starting and completing task. In the text the author explains that procrastination is all rooted from inner fears such as: the fear of failure, the fear of being overwhelmed, the fear of being imperfect, the fear of success, and the fear of increased demands. Dr. Fiore gives the tools to identify when you are procrastinating and also to effectively be more productive while minimizing stress.
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.
Procrastination might seem as a very basic topic to research about, and even though I might not find the answer to what I need to. One of the reasons of why I chose this theme because is something that no one will be more interested than a procrastinator. Being a procrastinator myself, I’m always making excuses to not work or even to study. Another reason is that of many people think that procrastination is the same as laziness. Understanding the difference between these two themes is very hard because many people don’t know the importance of knowing how procrastination starts. Procrastination has been linked to many disorder like; depression, irrational behavior, low self-esteem, where laziness doesn't appear anywhere close. A procrastinator might have one of these negative aspects, and they aren’t aware and go with that definition of procrastination that the society has implanted. Which is procrastinator are lazy people. For adults, this is very hard to assimilate, and to deal with now imagine in high school how hard it can be, even though there you have a lot of help from other adults. In the university is harder and for some hardcore
Dudley offered about students unwilling to engage in the writing process. He states, “... it was students who intentionally copied ― knowing it was wrong ― who were “unwilling to engage the writing process.” I agree with this because more often than not, when students are not excited to write, they would plagiarize to get by. They would aim for the bare minimum to pass and never over because they are not interested in what they are being taught. In addition, they don’t understand the purpose of what they are doing and when that happens, they don’t put the effort into what they are doing. They just know that they have to do it for a grade, but a grade does not mean anything if it wasn’t done by the student. For example, in my middle school, where many students are concerned about just passing rather than actually doing the work to get there, they would plagiarize. These are the same students “unwilling to engage in the writing process.” Students would share their work through google docs to other students in the hope that they can get ideas. But rather than using one student’s work for ideas, the other student would copy and paste it to their own until the teacher catches them.
“Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today;” Abraham Lincoln, our nation’s 13th President, spoke about procrastinating over a century and a half ago. Did he foreshadow the new procrastination problem infecting our youth today? Maybe, but it’s become an epidemic, spreading across the nation like wildfire. Nevertheless, there’s a difference between those who procrastinate and those who are procrastinators. A non-procrastinator and a procrastinator both have to-do lists with 12 tasks to accomplish; the non-procrastinator finishes tasks one through nine and leaves the rest for another day, but the procrastinator tends to do one or two things before reorganizing the list and procrastinating on the rest (Jaffe). One can argue that procrastinators have symptoms of Attention Deficit Disorder causing their lack in concentration, but many teens feel as if they don’t have enough time to finish everything they need to do. Procrastination is not a mental disorder; teenagers simply delay harder projects to do easier assignments, fear being rejected by their peers, and hope for a last minute sense of urgency that will propel them to do better on their endeavors.
Low conscientiousness is associated with impulsive behavior as well as carelessness and apathy. Provided that low conscientiousness is connected to impulsive behavior, Gregory Smith and Leila Guller (as cited in M. Mikulincer et al., 2014, p. 333) explain that lack of planning and perseverance are two traits low conscientious individuals have that may be correlated with rash thinking and impulsive actions (e.g. ., walking alone at night, cheating on an exam, drinking and driving). This type of behavior can lead to “maladaptive drug use” and other risky behaviors such as risky sexual behavior and smoking (M. Mikulincer et al., 2014). Lack of planning is defined as a lack of precaution or forethought and does not refer to anything caused by intense emotions or sensation seeking. Additionally, G. Smith, S. Fisher, M. Cynders, A. Annus, N. Spillane and D. McCarthy (as cited in M. Mikulincer et al., 2014, p. 334) lack of perseverance refers to the “inability to remain focused on a task” and may be related to impaired school or occupational functioning. Also, low conscientiousness has been linked to peer-victimization and rejection due to poor self control (i.e. externalizing and attention difficulties) (M. Mikulincer et al.,
Procrastination can be a major problem in both your career and your personal life because procrastination is the thief of time. When you keep putting off things, they keep piling up and getting in your way of achieving other things. Then you have missed opportunities, frenzied work hours, feel stressed, guilt and resentment; you find you are being overwhelmed easily because there is just so much to do.
With so much wrong in the world, nothing is often done to stop it. “Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a proportion of men, long after nature has released them from alien guidance, naturalists, nonetheless gladly remain in lifelong immaturity, and why it is so easy for others to establish themselves as their guardians. It is so easy to be immature” (Kant 1784, p. 1). Laziness simply fits in with human nature a tad too well. The idea of laziness, unfortunately, allows people to feel like they are in a state of peace and comfort with no need to “think outside the box” or rebel for what is right.
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.
Procrastination is a tendency to postpone, put off, delay, reschedule, take a rain check on, put on ice, hold off, or to defer what is necessary to reach a particular goal.(Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition. Philip Lief Group 2009.) While attending College some students find it hard to juggle work, family, and friends. Leading most students down a dangerous path to procrastination; that negative impact affect students from their physical health, mental health, and social health.
Modern students face many pressures for academic success. They are often unwilling to disappoint their parents or spouses. Some fear that not cheating will weaken a student’s ability to compete with their peers. They rationalize their unethical behavior, unwilling to accept a poor grade, consequently justifying cheating as the only means to that end.
Most humans have habits, habits in which they do simply because if they do not do them they feel uncomfortable. Procrastination is one of those habits that not all, but most people suffer from. Procrastination means to put off key things to do less important things that could possibly wait. It has been proving that all most everyone procrastinates, but procrastination does not determine what type of person one is. Procrastination is like a virus or a bad cold that does not want to go away. If one does not stop the problem it will get bigger; therefore, if people do not control their procrastinating they will start to do it more. However, the worst time to procrastinate is in college. College students often forget hoe important time is. Being a procrastinator can lead to several different outcomes. Procrastination can led to either good or bad outcomes. It all depends on the person doing the procrastinating. Procrastination is not always meant to happen; sometimes it simply happens because a person is too busy. Procrastination has both good and bad causes and effects, can cause failure, and bad decisions.