Comments on: My lazy life http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/my-lazy-life/ Make Yourself and Your Business Happy At Work Sun, 20 May 2012 05:56:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Zoltan Zandar http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/my-lazy-life/#comment-257658 Zoltan Zandar Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:38:25 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/my-lazy-life/#comment-257658 Ilearned the value of laziness WAAAAAAAAY back in the 70s when I read Robert Heinlein's 'The Man Who Was Too Lazy To Fail'. A great success story! :D Ilearned the value of laziness WAAAAAAAAY back in the 70s when I read Robert Heinlein’s ‘The Man Who Was Too Lazy To Fail’. A great success story! :D

]]> By: DStaal http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/my-lazy-life/#comment-257501 DStaal Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:11:25 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/my-lazy-life/#comment-257501 My suspicion is that the 'over-achieving, involved in everything' students had already discovered this. They simply knew how to identify the times when they were ready to work on something, and go do it then. As long as they kept switching from what they were ready to work on to what they were ready to work on next, they could be very productive, while being 'lazy' by putting off what they weren't ready for yet. My suspicion is that the ‘over-achieving, involved in everything’ students had already discovered this. They simply knew how to identify the times when they were ready to work on something, and go do it then. As long as they kept switching from what they were ready to work on to what they were ready to work on next, they could be very productive, while being ‘lazy’ by putting off what they weren’t ready for yet.

]]> By: HillsdaleGirl http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/my-lazy-life/#comment-247399 HillsdaleGirl Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:43:45 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/my-lazy-life/#comment-247399 I am entering my junior year of college this fall and I too have been envious of the over-achieving, well-prepared, involved-in-everything-on-campus students. I highly value my education and I love my college, but finding a disciplined routine that is ideal for being thoroughly prepared and well-versed on homework material has been a struggle (pretty much all my life, not just college). From reading this article I realize it might be a struggle for me because I'm trying to be someone I'm not. This summer I made my usual list of goals I wanted to accomplish.... and as usual the list is not completed. Thank you so much for giving me a new perspective! The word, "lazy" has always been associated with failure and flawed character in my mind. However, it doesn't have to be. I can still be producing good work, smart work, and a high volume of it if I embrace I am and apply it to each task, homework, or career. I'm excited to give this a try: finding ways to be myself and have fun in every project and task of the day... and see which ones get done :) I am entering my junior year of college this fall and I too have been envious of the over-achieving, well-prepared, involved-in-everything-on-campus students.

I highly value my education and I love my college, but finding a disciplined routine that is ideal for being thoroughly prepared and well-versed on homework material has been a struggle (pretty much all my life, not just college).

From reading this article I realize it might be a struggle for me because I’m trying to be someone I’m not. This summer I made my usual list of goals I wanted to accomplish…. and as usual the list is not completed.

Thank you so much for giving me a new perspective! The word, “lazy” has always been associated with failure and flawed character in my mind. However, it doesn’t have to be. I can still be producing good work, smart work, and a high volume of it if I embrace I am and apply it to each task, homework, or career.

I’m excited to give this a try: finding ways to be myself and have fun in every project and task of the day… and see which ones get done :)

]]> By: Underachiever’s Alliance Blog – Open Source Design - fall09 http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/my-lazy-life/#comment-244389 Underachiever’s Alliance Blog – Open Source Design - fall09 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:07:01 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/my-lazy-life/#comment-244389 [...] I haven’t found anything like it on the internet (I have found some articles that people have written about living a lazy life but nothing approaching the centralized online [...] [...] I haven’t found anything like it on the internet (I have found some articles that people have written about living a lazy life but nothing approaching the centralized online [...]

]]> By: transitvans http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/my-lazy-life/#comment-243543 transitvans Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:41:30 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/my-lazy-life/#comment-243543 Not going the extra mile doesnt necessarily make you lazy; in some cases it just makes you more efficient :) Not going the extra mile doesnt necessarily make you lazy; in some cases it just makes you more efficient :)

]]> By: Ray Daugherty http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/my-lazy-life/#comment-233767 Ray Daugherty Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:29:42 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/my-lazy-life/#comment-233767 "As an entreprenur, my approach has been this: Start a lot of small projects and see which ones grab me. Rather than try to analyze my way to an answer to which opportunity is the best/will make me the most money/will be the most fun, I float a lot of ideas in a lot of places. Some happen, most don’t. The ones that happen are by definition the right ones, and they are always fun to work on. Always." I will follow you to the ends of the Earth. You are my religion now. “As an entreprenur, my approach has been this: Start a lot of small projects and see which ones grab me. Rather than try to analyze my way to an answer to which opportunity is the best/will make me the most money/will be the most fun, I float a lot of ideas in a lot of places. Some happen, most don’t. The ones that happen are by definition the right ones, and they are always fun to work on. Always.”

I will follow you to the ends of the Earth. You are my religion now.

]]> By: Sven http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/my-lazy-life/#comment-204015 Sven Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:28:05 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/my-lazy-life/#comment-204015 Hi! So you understood our blogpost and you seem to speak german? :) I really found myself in your description "The lazy student". I'm not that kind of guy, who begins early enough with exam preparations, too. Every time again :) And I'm doing quite well in my studies anyway. My lazy-strategy seems to be kind of weird to the just-in-time-sitting-in-the-first-row-of-the-auditorium people, but I think I'm a lot less stressed out than most of them are. And I have made the same experiences when I'm programming something. Sometimes it just 'feels right'. And if it does, it has nothing of hard work, even if I spend hours and hours on it. It's a bit like arts education in school: you have to be crative at a certain, over-directed time. You can be a great painter, but necessarily at any time. If the time is right, you can give your best... So keep on being lazy, best wishes from Germany, Sven :) Hi!

So you understood our blogpost and you seem to speak german? :)

I really found myself in your description “The lazy student”. I’m not that kind of guy, who begins early enough with exam preparations, too. Every time again :) And I’m doing quite well in my studies anyway. My lazy-strategy seems to be kind of weird to the just-in-time-sitting-in-the-first-row-of-the-auditorium people, but I think I’m a lot less stressed out than most of them are.

And I have made the same experiences when I’m programming something. Sometimes it just ‘feels right’. And if it does, it has nothing of hard work, even if I spend hours and hours on it.
It’s a bit like arts education in school: you have to be crative at a certain, over-directed time. You can be a great painter, but necessarily at any time. If the time is right, you can give your best…

So keep on being lazy,
best wishes from Germany,

Sven :)

]]> By: atomtigerblog » Happy Hour is 9 to 5 - the strange behaviour of a few animals http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/my-lazy-life/#comment-203973 atomtigerblog » Happy Hour is 9 to 5 - the strange behaviour of a few animals Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:41:28 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/my-lazy-life/#comment-203973 [...] Vielleicht hilft dieses Buch ja weiter. Mir persönlich gefällt besonders gut ein Blogeintrag des Autors, wie sich seine Produktivität durch Faulheit steigern ließ. Nachzulesen hier. [...] [...] Vielleicht hilft dieses Buch ja weiter. Mir persönlich gefällt besonders gut ein Blogeintrag des Autors, wie sich seine Produktivität durch Faulheit steigern ließ. Nachzulesen hier. [...]

]]> By: JT Murphy http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/my-lazy-life/#comment-165961 JT Murphy Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:22:43 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/my-lazy-life/#comment-165961 One of the proudest moments of my college life is the night where I finished three papers, totaling 11 pages, entirely within the span 12 hours, from 6 PM to 6 AM. I still have the 64-oz. soda tub from 7-11 that got me through that wonderful evening, and I still don't think I've slept better in my life. Of course, the best sleep always begins at 7. One of the proudest moments of my college life is the night where I finished three papers, totaling 11 pages, entirely within the span 12 hours, from 6 PM to 6 AM. I still have the 64-oz. soda tub from 7-11 that got me through that wonderful evening, and I still don’t think I’ve slept better in my life. Of course, the best sleep always begins at 7.

]]> By: Josh http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/my-lazy-life/#comment-160871 Josh Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:25:25 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/my-lazy-life/#comment-160871 Hey! Thanks alot! I really got a good perspective on my study habits and how I can achieve success. I'm a high school student right now, and, as I am applying to colleges, I am also envious of those over-achieving, self-witted bookworms! :P Anyways, thanks for the article. lol I am procrastinating as I type. Man! I love this article! Thanks much! Statistics can wait for me. Hey! Thanks alot! I really got a good perspective on my study habits and how I can achieve success. I’m a high school student right now, and, as I am applying to colleges, I am also envious of those over-achieving, self-witted bookworms! :P Anyways, thanks for the article. lol I am procrastinating as I type. Man! I love this article! Thanks much! Statistics can wait for me.

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