laziness...

I am sitting on the sofa in front of the TV writing about..laziness. Oh, the delicious irony of it! The TV is yet to go on. I plan to write during the commercial breaks- thus maximising my time, sort of. But surely a less lazy person would do things differently. 

We think of driven people as being the opposite of lazy but they are not. The opposite of being lazy is being useful. Idries Shah wrote that lazy people have simply pursued uselessness for too long.

Unfortunately we live in a culture in which being useless is often financially rewarded. A kind of laziness enters the fabric of everyday life.

Surfice it to say: along with negativity and superficiality, laziness is a kind of viral infection of all cultures, in some measure or another. Focusing on the useful, avoiding makework at all costs, avoiding bullshit jobs, finding joy in creativity- this will all help edge you around the laziness trap. And doing stuff when you think about it, instead of putting it off.