Video Analysis: Is Being Lazy Okay?

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Is Being Lazy Okay? Often times in life a person encounters a task that he or she just has no interest in preforming. After the person realizes that they do not want to preform that specific task one of two things always happens. Either that person will do the task in spite of the desire not to. Alternatively, the person will procrastinate doing the task. A majority of the time procrastination is the wrong choice. So, if putting that daunting task is the wrong choice why do so many people around the world struggle with procrastination (Myself included)? The most obvious answer is they are lazy. For a majority of lazy people that idea of putting a task off until tomorrow is much to enticing to pass up. This is the start of a vicious cycle that …show more content…

(Mitchell Moffit, 2017). By using this quote Mitchell is attempting to use the rhetorical appeal of pathos he wants the lazy people to feel connected to the real world. Mitchell wants the people watching the video to see the pattern that plagues them and so many others. The meaning behind Mitchell’s quote is to make people question all the times they are put a specific task off until the next day only to not do that task. He wants them to think of all the time that they procrastinated. In order for people to stop being lazy Mitchell realizes that the cycle needs to stop. In order for the cycle to stop he want people to realize that if they do not have the motivation to do a task today, they want suddenly to find the motivation to do the task tomorrow. The motivation to do task will not suddenly appear, tomorrow will come and desire to do the task will not. So, the person should make a choice, the can do the task or they give up on that specific …show more content…

Here Mitchell is attempting to use the rhetorical appeal of logos. Mitchell wants the reader to come to the logical conclusion that not all tasks where created equal and that some tasks are not as important as others. Sometimes it is just easier to give up on a mundane task that does not mean a lot. However, giving up on a task is not necessarily a bad thing. In his video Mitchell implies that giving up on a task is not always because you cannot accomplish it. At some point a person has to come to the realization that it would be much easier to just give up on a task then struggle to get it done. When a person realizes that the task is not a priority it should be okay to give up on it, and once that happens the person should feel less guilty. If the task is important obviously the person should not give up on it. The uses of this quote was included to lead the reader to the conclusion that it is okay to be lazy sometime, but that giving up on a task is only an option if the task at hand is not a

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