The Three Kinds of Laziness
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The Three Kinds of Laziness
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Re: The Three Kinds of Laziness
#2Excellent content and suggestions. To attack the 3 kinds of laziness at once, I for one find motivation in reading the dharma (see the miracle of knowledge) and Seneca letters.
Speaking of Seneca letters, the last one is especially thoughtful, in reminding us that physical pleasures should not be scorned either.
The parent article may insist too much in spirituality - but besides that minor drawback, it's a great read, with actionnable practical advice.
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#3This is great. For some reason, I read it as the point to this was the third kind of laziness, and how to overcome that. It seemed like the least obvious of the three, and also once I read it, how to overcome it was also the least obvious.
And it's a very good thing to bring up. I for one, am always working on something, attending to something, and it's all as a lead-up to the 'something big'. What my co-founder tends to do is realize when we're in this mode and declare it's time to 'step it up a notch'. We do things if we realize we're scared or nervous to do them, purely to get past that and move forward.
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#4This simplistic 'snap out of it' ideology belies and belittles the very real issues of fear, discouragement and depression that underly much of what people berate themselves over as 'laziness'.
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#5I was hoping for a mention of the useful programmer's type of laziness. The laziness that leads to DRY and building tools that build your tools. I feel like more could be said on that topic, how that sort of laziness relates to the others.
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#6If you see this as actionable information you could probably get a good deal out of perusing information on the eightfold path, particularly Right Effort (http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sacca/sacca4/samma...).
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#7I was hoping for a mention of the useful programmer's type of laziness. The laziness that leads to DRY and building tools that build your tools. I feel like more could be said on that topic, how that sort of laziness relates to the others.
I take it that this is just a specific example of the 3rd kind.
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#8Sloth, apathy, and procrastination.
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#9I was hoping for a mention of the useful programmer's type of laziness. The laziness that leads to DRY and building tools that build your tools. I feel like more could be said on that topic, how that sort of laziness relates to the others.
A lot of Zen and Buddhism would agree with programmers laziness, methinks. A Zen monk would probably point out that, by definition, if you're working harder than you need to then you're wasting action and effort that could be put elsewhere, or simply not done.
One of the 'jokes' of Zen is that people will spend so much time attempting to reach enlightenment, only to realize there wasn't anything in particular to realize.
Case in point, Mu. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative)
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#10If procrastination was that easy to beat, we probably wouldn't have a laziness problem in the first place. I mean in general, not just for "spiritual" practices.
As for spiritual enlightenment, my best bet right now is mind uploading, which should make introspection and subsequent ascension much easier. (I know it's still a long shot, since we may not have that possibility before my body fails me —if ever. But it is my best bet.)