On Laziness
lifeThere are two kinds of laziness. The first type drives you to find the easiest, fastest way to get things done, while the second just looks for excuses to avoid doing anything at all.
That first kind—the laziness that seeks out the path of least resistance—can be a hidden strength. It’s the urge to streamline, to make the work less tedious and more efficient. This is the kind of laziness that makes you want to automate repetitive tasks or rethink a process so you’re not wasting time on the same thing over and over. It’s the lazy impulse that motivates you to create a macro to save yourself the trouble of editing 40 lines one by one. Instead of slogging through unnecessary work, this kind of laziness pushes you to make things faster and smoother for the future. It’s the type of laziness worth bragging about.
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