Here is how to decomplexify a complicated task: assign it to your laziest employee.
In no time, that individual will question and eliminate the extraneous components of that task—Why are we doing this?
Laziness is defined as the quality of being unwilling to work or use energy; ‘idleness’.
Might laziness be reframed as the quality of being unwilling to [do unnecessary] work or energy?
One study found that, on average, people who are less physically active tend to be brainier than physically active people, according to a 2015 study published in the Journal of Health Psychology. Researchers even developed a fancy description for ‘laziness’ — they call it ‘need for cognition’. People who have this trait crave structured and reasoned ways of looking at the world, and they often pursue activities that provide intense mental stimulation, such as brainstorming puzzles or debating.
My opinion is that, seen through the lens above, humans are lazy. Human history reveals a string of labor-saving advances.
Science stops short of concluding that people who are lazy are more intelligent than always-active individuals, but I suspect this is so….
A correlation may exist between high intelligence and lower physical activity, as some intelligent individuals prefer deep thinking over external stimulation, which can be misconstrued as laziness. However, this is not a universal rule; some intelligent people are very active, and physical activity is not inherently a sign of lower intelligence. The perceived link is not about intelligence causing laziness, but rather that some intelligent people may be less inclined to physical activity because they are content to spend more time in thought, whereas less intelligent people might use physical activity to alleviate boredom.—Google AI
