" stop being lazy and get up and do something" is a common phrase in my house. Every day my mom calls me lazy and wishes that I would do something to change that. In the world that we live, everybody is lazy. We may have different degrees of lazy, but they all share the same meaning.
Asking someone to turn the lights off when your two steps away from the switch, asking someone to get a remote control right in front of them, or acting like a couch potato would be considered lazy. The thing about laziness is that it can be defined in several ways. In the article "Laziness Is More Complex Than You Think" the author states "Laziness, or a lack of goal pursuit, can, therefore, be thought of as a situation where individuals are not motivated to expend the effort necessary to achieve their goals.". The authors meaning of the word lazy are based on traits but to me being lazy is not a trait that a person possesses, but a state of mind and a set of habits that we have.
The definition of lazy also varies among people of every generation. Many grandparents have a completely different view of what it means to be lazy from looking at their grandchildren. For …show more content…
If this was the case then maybe its a chance that we as people just place the issue at the bottom of our priorities. For example, teenagers don't bother to clean their rooms, not in the fact of being lazy. However, the idea of a spotless environment isn't important at that time. In the article "THE ART OF DOING NOTHING" a sixteen-year-old college freshman states"Laziness is not always seen as a bad thing, there is such a thing as the ‘art of doing nothing’, meaning giving importance to just the simplest of things, slowing things down, and treasuring every moment in every way.". This quote informs the reader that with prioritizing it makes the smallest detail the biggest
Asking someone to turn the lights off when your two steps away from the switch, asking someone to get a remote control right in front of them, or acting like a couch potato would be considered lazy. The thing about laziness is that it can be defined in several ways. In the article "Laziness Is More Complex Than You Think" the author states "Laziness, or a lack of goal pursuit, can, therefore, be thought of as a situation where individuals are not motivated to expend the effort necessary to achieve their goals.". The authors meaning of the word lazy are based on traits but to me being lazy is not a trait that a person possesses, but a state of mind and a set of habits that we have.
The definition of lazy also varies among people of every generation. Many grandparents have a completely different view of what it means to be lazy from looking at their grandchildren. For …show more content…
If this was the case then maybe its a chance that we as people just place the issue at the bottom of our priorities. For example, teenagers don't bother to clean their rooms, not in the fact of being lazy. However, the idea of a spotless environment isn't important at that time. In the article "THE ART OF DOING NOTHING" a sixteen-year-old college freshman states"Laziness is not always seen as a bad thing, there is such a thing as the ‘art of doing nothing’, meaning giving importance to just the simplest of things, slowing things down, and treasuring every moment in every way.". This quote informs the reader that with prioritizing it makes the smallest detail the biggest