Laziness

It has come to my attention that most people are lazy in the things they should do, and hard working in the things that they should not do. For instance, I ran a workshop on learning once and had to hand hold the participants to literally even take out their pens (complained they didn’t have pens, when all they had to do was to bend down to get their pencil case from their bags).

 

Another instance is when people start up businesses. They want the idea, the process, and everything else. When the business stops working, they blame the idea and the plan that was sold to them. Huh?! Helloo… people… it’s time to start making ‘sense’ here. It’s astounding. No wonder there are so few millionaires.

 

Someone called me up on the phone yesterday night and said he had been fired. I said congratulations, it is either the saddest or happiest day of his life. He said ‘saddest’. I said why? He said ‘because I lost my job’. I asked again – why were you fired? And he said the loud and emphatic, ‘I don’t know. They said I wasn’t performing well enough, but they didn’t tell me what I was supposed to do!’

 

Duh.

 

In any organization, you’ll have to make sure that you know what is expected of you. If it is vague, do something and check back if what is being done is according to expectation, then surge forward in that direction. I told him ‘You deserve to be fired’. I hate to hear grown men cry. >o)

 

Anyway, he snapped out of it after that, so he acknowledged he wasn’t really being a star player and just wanted to keep a low profile.

 

What is the psychology of laziness? I know I’m lazy in some things – I procrastinate running when I know I ought to keep fit for the year’s IPPT, I know I have to clear up my desk (it’s a mess). But where certain matters are concerned, I get massively obsessed with it and generate a huge amount of learning so that I can create value. It’s an interesting skill – derived from accelerated learning. I think more people could do with being able to be an expert in an area within 3 months or less. Heh… maybe I’ll write a book on that.

 

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