Sunday, October 14, 2012


Do you ever worry that underneath it all you might just be a lazy person?

I worry about that quite a bit.

NY Faces by Annegret Soltau via Art Tattler via c ktnon via Steven Vandenplas
Posted by esb at 6:45 PM
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26 comments:

  1. terreurOctober 14, 2012 at 7:31 PM

    i KNOW i'm lazy.

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  2. lydia seeOctober 14, 2012 at 7:49 PM

    yes. lazy and very easily distrac

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  3. JenOctober 14, 2012 at 7:49 PM

    ^ ditto!

    but yes, i worry a lot about how my underlying laziness is mismatched with almost all of my life goals and most people's expectations of me. ACKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK indeed.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 14, 2012 at 8:25 PM

    Awareness goes a long way towards fixing most personality flaws. . .or at least mediating them! Don't worry ESB, I'm sure you're unlazy enough:)

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  5. JeniferOctober 14, 2012 at 9:29 PM

    I worry about it whenever I just want to sleep in and do nothing. So.. pretty regularly.

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  6. ElizaOctober 15, 2012 at 2:04 AM

    I was going to write a nice long comment but in the end laziness took over.

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  7. Sarah TOctober 15, 2012 at 4:34 AM

    This is me. And I really resent lazy people. Self included.

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  8. caraOctober 15, 2012 at 5:39 AM

    I don't worry about it, I just accept it.

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  9. unfounddoorOctober 15, 2012 at 6:20 AM

    as I look at this on my work computer in the middle of the afternoon?
    erm.

    Also, that picture is truly terrifying.

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    1. unfounddoorOctober 15, 2012 at 6:23 AM

      (it's really more a high level of inertia: takes a lot to get me going, takes a lot to make me stop. Which is almost worse)

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  10. AnonymousOctober 15, 2012 at 6:57 AM

    Omg yes. Are you me? Wait no, not possible. You have a better sense of style... There are OTHER people that think like this?!

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    1. AnonymousOctober 15, 2012 at 9:23 AM

      Seriously, you're surprised other people also think they're lazy? This can't be all that shocking.

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  11. AnonymousOctober 15, 2012 at 7:07 AM

    It's not laziness if the things you have to do are tedious, boring or stupid.

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    1. AnonymousOctober 15, 2012 at 9:26 AM

      Not necessarily. I know a lot of people who think their (very important) jobs are tedious, boring, and stupid, and their subsequent laziness actually causes serious problems. Your perception often doesn't equal a valid excuse.

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    2. AnonymousOctober 15, 2012 at 1:06 PM

      Yes it can cause serious problems if your boring job is an important one, but my point is, it's actually healthy and sane to feel a reluctance to do things which bore you to tears. Being a robot is not something to aspire to.

      I don't think we should be so hard on ourselves. Being idle is good for you.

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  12. HelenaOctober 15, 2012 at 10:00 AM

    yes. daily.

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  13. AmyOctober 15, 2012 at 11:22 AM

    For sure I'm lazy. Publicly in denial, personally I OWN it.

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  14. FrancesOctober 15, 2012 at 11:56 AM

    I struggle with beating myself up over this too. It's kind of some fake bullshit though, because laziness isn't an innate, immutable moral quality that you're born with. It's warped perfectionism, unhelpful responses to pressure, stuff like that. Stuff that can be dealt with, if you want to.
    Think if a friend of yours who is a jerk said, "It really bothers me that I'm such a jerk all the time, but that's who am, nothing to be done about it." You'd call bullshit and tell them to... stop acting like a jerk. No one has a jerk gene. No one has a laziness gene either.

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    1. FrancesOctober 15, 2012 at 11:59 AM

      I'm too... lazy to recap this, but here's the research on why so many women grow up to have this attitude that our best and worst qualities are fixed and innate.

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    2. esbOctober 15, 2012 at 12:08 PM

      I *was* a Bright Girl. I was.

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    3. RachelOctober 15, 2012 at 4:41 PM

      "warped perfectionism" YESSSSSSS

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    4. unfounddoorOctober 16, 2012 at 1:59 AM

      @Frances, Thank you, what a great comment. I might print it out and pin it next to my desk (for the next time I feel like running during a conference call)

      That article is really interesting - I've been reading a lot about gender stereotyping / unconsciously gendered approaches to upbringing and education recently (and looking back on my own as an extremely 'smart' girl) and I think there's a lot to it.

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  15. FrancesOctober 15, 2012 at 1:06 PM

    I suspected as much ;)

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  16. AnonymousOctober 15, 2012 at 1:58 PM

    I am. I recently spent a whole weekend making a photo-calendar online from the comfort of my sofa, while watching Project Runway. THE. WHOLE. WEEKEND.

    Hannah

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  17. ElizabethOctober 15, 2012 at 2:42 PM

    I don't think it's underlying-- I think it's front and center.

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