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I'm a naturally lazy person and it took me a painful three decades to come to the conclusion that laziness is not a virtue. It's a handicap. I constantly hear "

by lj3 9y ago

I'm a naturally lazy person and it took me a painful three decades to come to the conclusion that laziness is not a virtue. It's a handicap. I constantly hear "work smart, not hard." Why is it an either or? Why can't you do both? What if you had the work ethic of Steve Jobs and you worked as smart as you possibly could? Imagine what you could achieve.

nine_k 9y ago
Strive to work smart, add the "hard" part as you see fit. Not the other way around: working hard but dumb won't leave you time to find smarter ways.
- lj3 9y ago
  I disagree. Working hard but dumb gets you in the habit of working hard. Now all you have to do is figure out smarter ways of working, which you will have time to figure out because you're a hard worker! That's a much better approach than being lazy and working smart. It's much, much harder to transition from being lazy to being industrious than it is to transition from working dumb to working smart.
  - blueprint 9y ago
    And, as a matter of fact, one does not actually know how smart one is being without already having been willing to work hard. It takes work to make real confirmations of what we think we know, and if we are not willing to put in any work, what is going to push us over the obstacles which must be cleared in order to be free from comfortable cognitive traps such as groupthink? Seen in that light, it would be very silly for someone to disagree that working hard is important because it's very literally necessary in order to be able to have the result of being smart. It's easy for the ignorant to ignore but when they say "lazy" they generally mean something closer to "don't want to know" something or "not courageous enough to ask" because it actually takes more work and is thus harder to change for the better through learning things in actuality than it is not to change for the better. As if they desire it to be true that they can succeed by only having to use their brain, it may be a form of greed.

by lj3 9y ago

nine_k 9y ago

Strive to work smart, add the "hard" part as you see fit. Not the other way around: working hard but dumb won't leave you time to find smarter ways.

lj3 9y ago
I disagree. Working hard but dumb gets you in the habit of working hard. Now all you have to do is figure out smarter ways of working, which you will have time to figure out because you're a hard worker! That's a much better approach than being lazy and working smart. It's much, much harder to transition from being lazy to being industrious than it is to transition from working dumb to working smart.
- blueprint 9y ago
  And, as a matter of fact, one does not actually know how smart one is being without already having been willing to work hard. It takes work to make real confirmations of what we think we know, and if we are not willing to put in any work, what is going to push us over the obstacles which must be cleared in order to be free from comfortable cognitive traps such as groupthink? Seen in that light, it would be very silly for someone to disagree that working hard is important because it's very literally necessary in order to be able to have the result of being smart. It's easy for the ignorant to ignore but when they say "lazy" they generally mean something closer to "don't want to know" something or "not courageous enough to ask" because it actually takes more work and is thus harder to change for the better through learning things in actuality than it is not to change for the better. As if they desire it to be true that they can succeed by only having to use their brain, it may be a form of greed.