What Causes Laziness? - By Simeon Adedokun

WHAT CAUSES

LAZINESS?

Simeon Ayoade Adedokun http://facebook.com/osparklehttp://twitter.com/_osparkle

CAUSES OF LAZINESS

By

Simeon Adedokun

April 2016

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This article is useful to everyone as it will help tounderstand the psychology of laziness, its nature andcauses.

Employers can understand when an employee is lazy andemployees too can understand when he is lazy.

FOR WHO?

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Sometimes, some people tend to procrastinate or notexert effort to do what they want to do or are expected todo. The laziness mechanism turns on when oursubconscious mind begins to classify the work or job athand as a useless, resource and time wasting undertaking,even if the person knowingly understands the importanceand the need to perform the job. This may be caused bysome reasons, which are discussed in the next slides.

INTRODUCTION

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1.FEAR OF RESPONSIBILITY AND

ACCOUNTABILITYTo carry forward an assigned task to a successful conclusion, oneneeds to accept responsibility and be ready to give account ofwhatever he does. Most times, many are unwilling to work becausethey afraid of being held accountable for the outcome of a particularoperation and that establishes them to be lazy. Hardworking peopletake responsibilities.

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2.FEAR OF EXPECTATIONS

Some people intentionally establish themselves as lazy so as toprevent others from having high expectations for them, and to makepeople plan for them. Such people avoid commitments and remainresponsibility-free, though they pretend to be doing something thatoccupies all their time, so as to make other people take theirresponsibilities on them. Lazy people work to avoid more importantthings.

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3.FEAR OF RISKS AND FAILURES

Many people become despondent and lose courage when they lookat the risks involved in a job because they don't want to losesomething that is of value to them in case they fail. Every rewardingwork/job requires some sacrifices to be made before the rewardcould be gotten — losing something of value in order to getsomething of greater value.

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4.DEPRESSION

This is the state of a mind with the inability to visualize a happy orbrighter future, usually characterized by lack of motivation anddissatisfaction in a previous task. Depressed people are usuallyunwilling to do work because of loss of hope and lack of courage.Though depression maybe the symptom of a problem, it can makepeople see you as being lazy if you become depressed often.

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5.ADDICTION TO PLEASURE AND LEISURE

Those who like taking abundant time for relaxation and enjoymenttend to be lazier; they love to be where they will derive feeling oftemporary happy satisfaction and enjoyment from activities orthings that are used or intended for entertainment rather thanbusiness.

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6.LIVING A DEPENDENT LIVE

Living with everyday desire for nurture and expectation fromsomebody or the government can make one lose his self will andabilities, and it makes some people lazy. Those who live dependentlives usually don’t believe in themselves, so they are engrossed withfear whenever they are asked to carry out a task. They want allthings to be done for them by others.

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Laziness is the quality of being unwilling to work or make an effortto get things done when a person really has the ability to carry out aparticular task. A lazy person is disinclined to exertion, he neverwants to use his physical or mental effort. Most lazybones,however, do not know/agree that they are lazy while some know butdecide to live a lazy life. Laziness results into idleness; it killsabilities and reduces productivity.Knowing the causes of laziness will help in overcoming it becausethe only way to overcome laziness is to understand its nature andparticularly its causes.I will discuss how to overcome laziness in one of my next articles.

CONCLUSION


THANK YOU!

----Simeon Ayoade Adedokun

2016

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