Monday, March 19, 2007
Psychology of laziness
To begin with, I would like to say that laziness, concerned with loss of desire to work generally, nowadays can not be called phenomenon. It is commonplace to hear that one is saying he is lazy. In addition, there are six reasons or faults of being lazy posted at a sing near a Burmese Buddhist temple, that sounds like that: it is too cold, too hot, too late, too early, I am to hungry, too full. So, what psychological reasons can be found for such a motiveless explanation? Of course, we should take into account, probability of pathology. Laziness can appear as indifference of emotional, social and physical life in apathy. This disorder sometimes is a reaction to stress when it manifests as learned helplessness. That means, people believe they still can not do anything, and so, they don't. It is high time, to mention that laziness can be not only physical. I am not going to talk about natural tiredness. For example, Intellectual laziness is absolutely psychological problem. It is also concerned with learned helplessness and thinking that something negative will prevent us to act. More over, for this kind of laziness it is typical feature to follow the crowd. By the way, cultural and social influence here plays a vitally important role. Obviously, in countries, where socialism, totalitarianism instead of liberal government dominate, people's psyche is affected forget any activity, expression. Furthermore, even phenomenon in psychology, when neither witness takes an initiative in an accident, contrarily, if person is alone, is caused because of universally common motivation that another person can do better, so I won't do anything at all. Secondly, let's discuss another aspects of laziness that are defined as emotional. They comes as a feeling that life is meaningless, our initiative is wrong, or as cynicism, therefore, one acts as unemotional. I suppose, it covers psychological problems of motivation. One of the highest need for the human being, according to psychologist Maslow, is self-realization. Unfortunately, for lazy people it is enough to satisfy their physiological needs. Maybe, explanation for it could be features of character as inadequacy, being superficial, what can be caused by many outer factors. For summarizing everything up, laziness as symptom, not mental factor, is people's problem of being unambitious, irresolute. After all, in big part it is influence of culture which treats person as a slight element in mass. But for all of as goal of life should be becoming personality, what is incompatible with neither type of laziness.
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The comprehension is very interesting, there are many interesting facts and a lot of useful information. Also,language is very fluent and it is not difficult to read:)
But for all of as goal of life should be becoming INDIVIDUALITY
Brilliant article.
Perhaps "experts" are or become lazy, because they have invested a lot of effort learning a topic; to the extent that they find that when they have spent effort to learn more, they have not learned much (if any) more. The effort seems not to be worth the gain. It is easier to do nothing than to continue.
You know what, i can relate to your points quite well. I wanted to do martial arts but then felt like not even bothering to start because i felt that i would never be better than the best. ( such as Bruce
lee ).
Really good article. Good VALID points. The total causes however may be different or alternative but otherwise yes, a good read indeed.
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