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I penned down half an A5 paper worth of text and my wrists already got sore. Typing is better but I never feel motivated to type private notes unless I don't have Internet connection whatsoever. Somehow a public journal works. In fact no, I'm going to write this such as to encourage discussion.
Someone told me a Dutch proverb which translates to: "laziness is the pillow of the devil," meaning that's where evil seeps through. Now wouldn't it be great if we could actually treat laziness as such? If you commit murder, you can't just casually say: "whoops, I made an error there," and continue whistling some melody that's on your mind. You fucked up big time and have to repent. So how about murdering your own potential? Is that okay? It's a subtle problem. If you get hit by a truck and die, your potential is forever squandered. We all know this, but it's difficult to live with this realization. If we can treat laziness as an evil as big as murder, we can unlock that mindset. That's waking up.
Do you have a good work ethic? How do you feel about the above? Are you awake?
Discuss.
I would live to preface this by saying that all of my problems are my own, all of my problems are derived from my own insufficient brain, and it just is the way it is.
I have become increasingly, almost unceasingly, lazy since midway through the pandemic. I am certain this is not a good, or attractive quality, but I really find it hard to give a fuck anymore.
Like, what is the point of trying?
Friends and Family will just leave you the moment they consider your viewpoint to be antithetical to their own.
I worked the hardest I ever did during the pandemic. So I'm also a little burnt out.
Necessity is the mother of invention. Laziness is the father of ingenuity.
It's ironic, but it is laziness that gets us to solve problems that aren't strictly necessary but are still improvements. So then is laziness really lazy?
I think it is similar to the concept in shooting that slow is smooth, and smooth is fast, but you've got be be fast. You can't be slow and have the result be slow, and have it be a benefit. You need to be, slow, smooth, and therefore fast. The trick is to not be obsessed with being fast because you will be slow. But if you choose to be slow as long as you have some mind for it to connect with fast it will. Laziness motivates us to make the world better, but you still have to be doing something to make a better world. You can't be 100% lazy and make a better world. But you can be 90% lazy. But if you are 100% not lazy you are just making work that doesn't make the world easier because you have no mind for the world becoming easier.
Just try to solve a few core problems a day. If you can try to make them as deep as possible using root cause analysis. Then the world becomes progressively better even if you don't buy in on the idea of life being a max-speed treadmill. The question becomes how deep can you work, not how much can you work. The accuracy with which you select problems to work on matters more than how much anxiety you induce on yourself while doing it.
The question is how do we select what we work on really well? That sounds like a pretty deep problem to work on. One that would have a lifetime of benefits.