#347: Lazy, your country needs you
Listen up, people, it’s time to slow down. It’s that time of year when it is okay to be lazy. Retailers please ignore this message.
The rest of you, it is time to practice being lazy. Working hard gets you two things – more work and tired. What does lazy get you? New ways of doing things simpler and faster, and new products. Who invented power steering? A lazy person, or course! In other words, lazy people create efficiencies and stimulate inventions.
How do we get the benefits of lazy all year round? Practice! Practice makes perfect.
Now, maybe Dagwood Bumstead was right when he said that ‘you can't teach people to be lazy - either they have it, or they don't.’ But you won’t know unless you test yourself.
Here’s how it’s done. Rest before you get tired. Simple, isn’t it? Now practice.
We need many more efficiencies and inventions next year.
I’m James McIntosh at nonsenseatwork.com
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Copyright: 2009 James Henry McIntosh
The rest of you, it is time to practice being lazy. Working hard gets you two things – more work and tired. What does lazy get you? New ways of doing things simpler and faster, and new products. Who invented power steering? A lazy person, or course! In other words, lazy people create efficiencies and stimulate inventions.
How do we get the benefits of lazy all year round? Practice! Practice makes perfect.
Now, maybe Dagwood Bumstead was right when he said that ‘you can't teach people to be lazy - either they have it, or they don't.’ But you won’t know unless you test yourself.
Here’s how it’s done. Rest before you get tired. Simple, isn’t it? Now practice.
We need many more efficiencies and inventions next year.
I’m James McIntosh at nonsenseatwork.com
Listen to the radio version of 'Lazy, your country needs you'
(10 most recent radio files)
James can be heard on Public Radio: Monday - 7:19am and Saturday - 8:19am
88.9 FM WCVE, Richmond VA | 89.1 FM WCNV, Heathsville VA | 90.1 FM WMVE, Chase City VA
Copyright: 2009 James Henry McIntosh
1 Comments:
Good James. There are efficiencies of 'being lazy' in not working. Thus, people who are out of work, can be efficient and innovative at the same time, while not having to go anywhere...or actually do anything. I wouldn't call it lazy, necessarily. Just 'resting'.
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