HOW LAZINESS SAVES US ALL

Disclaimer: This article is in no way influenced by a book you might know to be “How Laziness Saved my Life” by Mr. Okechukwu Ofili. That being said, I must let you know that I agree with the notion that laziness has been of more benefit to mankind than you think. Yeah, I mean it. Someone once said that “I like to hire lazy people in my organization because they always find the easy way out”. I do not know who made that statement and I frankly, I do not care but my point is that I agree with him/her 100%.

Progress has always been bordered by the desire to become better and to see that things are done in a better and much simpler way. Look at it like this: we, humans, got tired of striking stones together (which can be annoying) so we invented matchsticks; we got tired of storing unnecessary information and performing some annoying tasks so we invented the computer; our ability to lift weights was limited so we invented cranes and fork lifters; we couldn’t keep cutting so much grass, thus, the lawn mower.

Every machine, every invention has been created for the sake of making life simpler for us all. We must start harnessing our ability to be lazy to invent more ways to make life better. Laziness makes us imagine things we never thought we needed.  Let’s embrace hard work laziness and start thinking of ways to make our laziness look more fashionable. Everyone loves the easy way out (well, almost everyone).