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Maybe something poetic like "Laziness is the strongest emotional feeling human being can experience..." ?
REPLY: Except that many would disagree. :) Laziness is not an emotion, but it does CAUSE emotions -- mainly the emotions of depression and guilt. (That's what researchers into happiness have found.) I do know what you mean though -- the writing could be improved. I'm working on it. I visit this page every day. Wikidudeguy 13:36, 25 September 2006 (UTC)Wikidudeguy
Laziness is a major term, so I was surprised to see that this article is still a stub. I thought I would extend it and improve it a bit, but then I realized I couldn't possibly bother. Haakon 21:57, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
I would have expanded this article, but I can't be arsed. 86.56.48.12 17:36, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Ironic, isn't it? We all know this is an important article, but we're too lazy to make it half decent. I'll add that laziness is often connected with procrastination and a generally unconcerned paradigm. 142.179.73.102 ( talk) 03:44, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
'cause everyone is just way too lazy to write about laziness :) Cheers! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.101.186.19 ( talk) 02:38, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Laziness is the tendency ...
DUDE there is much more on the subject of laziness, but whoever wrote the main page was too lazy to finish it. hardy har har.
to do something in a lazy, laid back manner, but does not indicate the person is being lazy - 'I was mooching around town whilst trying to come up with ideas for my new book', for instance
mooch can also mean a person who feeds off the resources of another without contributing for example "that mooch always eats the pizza but never pays for any"
I question whether or not there is laziness, since it's really a word invented to be an insult. Therefore, I'm changing 'generally considered a negative quality' to 'probably considered by the hyperactive to exist.' -- Chuck Marean 16:52, 22 October 2006 (UTC).
I have never heard of anything laziness-related named 'Dean Moxham' and am removing it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.240.202.169 ( talk) 23:02, 3 January 2007 (UTC).
81.145.242.139 ( talk · contribs) just removed the bible section, and i restored it because i think it's valuable and relevant. If anyone else thinks it should go, please let me know what you see as wrong with the section, and i'll do my best to fix it. Foobaz· o< 02:17, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
I readded this as part of a larger "In Philosophies and Religions" section, merging the lead's comment on Christianity there ( diff). I believe this addresses the objections apart from User:70.136.192.141's personal opinions about the Bible. Please add other notable philosophical stances, within the normal standards. -- tiny plastic Grey Knight ⊖ 13:30, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Proverbs 18:9 says, "One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys." This is a much stronger statement than any in the article. 206.123.253.82 ( talk) 02:24, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
"An example of laziness would be a perfectly healthy person living at home with ones parents until the age of thirty years without the desire to get a job or find a career in ones life being in all ways dependent on ones parents for support." This seems to be written as an attack on a particular person, and at least contributes nothing to the article. Removed until anyone sees fit to add it back. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.136.192.141 ( talk) 02:40, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone else find it nearly as humorous as I that the article is very short? In fact, the discussion dwarfs it considerably... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.97.187.58 ( talk) 18:41, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Why is Christian the only philosophy represented in this "definition"? The cultural opinions of everyone else are ignored. The definition is too simple. What's with the creepy personal discussion in attempt a definition? Something went wrong here when Dean Moxham couldn't be knocked off. I think its funny, but since most people aren't on the inside of that joke, it should be removed. $$$/ 132.198.240.170 04:46, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
I don't think this artical should link to recluse. Just because someone is reclusive doesn't make them lazy. I don't see the connection. Could someone explain this to me? I'm going to remove the Recluse link for now.
Sontag12 —Preceding comment was added at 14:16, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
What is the evolutionary explanation of laziness? It is understandable why a lion would wish to conserve energy by remain idle been hunts. But do mental tasks require much energy? If not, why, then, is there often a greater desire to engage in nonproductive sedentary activities than in productive sedentary activities? ...Why might a student, for instance, choose playing a video game over doing homework? Maybe it has something to do with this, but I would think that people, being incentive-driven animals capable of seeking after long-term payoffs, would still be able to prioritize activities accordingly. Yet often people resort to self-defeating procrastination. Tisane talk/ stalk 17:36, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
This article meets very few of Wikipedia's guidelines. The Leonard Carmichael quote seems to be misplaced, and the fact that Carmichael's personal wiki page incorporates a single solid source at druglibrary.org does not help the notability. It would take very little effort to accurately ascribe laziness to the (actually demonstrated) factors that cause and sustain it, such as Hyperbolic discounting. There is no such thing as "laziness" in psychology, but all behavior frequently attributed to it has some kind of explanation. It is only appropriate that we provide this explanation. 85.167.119.115 ( talk) 13:37, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
Larry Wall says that Laziness is a great virtue for programmers:
"Laziness: The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great virtue of a programmer."
-- http://www.hhhh.org/wiml/virtues.html
It seems like this should be mentioned somewhere.
RichMorin ( talk) 19:38, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Computer science has notions such as Lazy evaluation (sometimes implemented, as in Clojure, by "lazy data structures". This should be mentioned on this page.
RichMorin ( talk) 19:38, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
99.112.212.152 ( talk) 07:22, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
http://www.kortexplores.com/node/46
This is a well written article on why laziness (together with greed, although humans are evolved much more towards laziness and out of greed) gives rise to high level function of human intelligence and evolved thereafter.
Can someone contribute an evolutionary perspective of human laziness? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Otivaeey ( talk • contribs) 00:18, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
Laziness may also be a by-product of many underlying mental health issues and forms of psychopathology such as depression, ADHD, sleep disorders, and schizophrenia,[3][4] in which case it is known as avolition. Are you serious as weed will lead you to heroin ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.245.137.29 ( talk) 00:09, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
The second paragraph begins with a reference to Freud's pleasure principle. The linked article says nothing about laziness. Is the implication that "laziness" does appear in the table of contents of one of Freud's books? Which one? Even so, that fact seems not to merit the "despite," for the claim to which it counts as counter-evidence is that "laziness" does not appear in the tables of content of most technical books. So, it's a confusing reference and I think should probably be removed. Or at least clarified. Or am I just being thick? dweinberger 13:18, 19 July 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dweinberger ( talk • contribs)
Several of the citations included the Psychology section are unrelated to the topic. The statement "Thomas Goetz, University of Konstanz, Germany, and John Eastwood, York University, Canada, concur that aversive states such as laziness can be equally adaptive for making change" does not link to any research from Thomas Goetz and John Eastwood, but instead links to a YouTube video of "Who Moved My Cheese."
The next line includes a quotation with no citation: "being mindful and not looking for ways out of it, simultaneously to be also open to creative and active options if they should arise."
The line following states: "They point out that a relentless engaging in activities without breaks can cause oscillations of failure". This sentence contains a grammatical error, it should read "They point out that a relentless engagement in activities..." In addition, "oscillations of failure" is a phrase I can find no meaningful definition of. Perhaps this behavior does cause failure in some way, but how has not been explained. This section links to a TED video regarding fairness perceptions in primates.
-- Jspain90 ( talk) 21:23, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
Misoponia redirects here, but the term appears nowhere on the page. Seems like it should. 136.62.144.170 ( talk) 01:54, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
what is meant by 'Peter, University of Calgary'? Is Peter just some guy who used to go there? I can't find any article relating to ADHD with this Adhiyana ( talk) 16:07, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
In the phrase "It has also been shown that laziness can render one apathetic to reactant mental health issues such as anger, anxiety, indifference, substance abuse, and depression." each thing from anger to the end is a hyperlink to their respective Wikipedia page, except indifference, which is a hyperlink to the page for schizoid personality disorder, thus making an equivalence between pathological indifference and SzPD. While it is true that the DSM-5 conceptualisation of SzPD (not the psychoanalytic conceptualisation) involves indifference to others and to the outside world in general, equivalating it with pathological indifference is reductionist to the point of being wrong. I'd be interested to hear any justification for making this equivalence. Anditres ( talk) 00:04, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
Basharat aziz dar is the worlds laziest person according to the oral history of the native village as well as the survey of district administration kupwara.currently he is living in srignar in sepration. Jk Nasir khan4233 ( talk) 15:20, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
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Maybe something poetic like "Laziness is the strongest emotional feeling human being can experience..." ?
REPLY: Except that many would disagree. :) Laziness is not an emotion, but it does CAUSE emotions -- mainly the emotions of depression and guilt. (That's what researchers into happiness have found.) I do know what you mean though -- the writing could be improved. I'm working on it. I visit this page every day. Wikidudeguy 13:36, 25 September 2006 (UTC)Wikidudeguy
Laziness is a major term, so I was surprised to see that this article is still a stub. I thought I would extend it and improve it a bit, but then I realized I couldn't possibly bother. Haakon 21:57, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
I would have expanded this article, but I can't be arsed. 86.56.48.12 17:36, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Ironic, isn't it? We all know this is an important article, but we're too lazy to make it half decent. I'll add that laziness is often connected with procrastination and a generally unconcerned paradigm. 142.179.73.102 ( talk) 03:44, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
'cause everyone is just way too lazy to write about laziness :) Cheers! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.101.186.19 ( talk) 02:38, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Laziness is the tendency ...
DUDE there is much more on the subject of laziness, but whoever wrote the main page was too lazy to finish it. hardy har har.
to do something in a lazy, laid back manner, but does not indicate the person is being lazy - 'I was mooching around town whilst trying to come up with ideas for my new book', for instance
mooch can also mean a person who feeds off the resources of another without contributing for example "that mooch always eats the pizza but never pays for any"
I question whether or not there is laziness, since it's really a word invented to be an insult. Therefore, I'm changing 'generally considered a negative quality' to 'probably considered by the hyperactive to exist.' -- Chuck Marean 16:52, 22 October 2006 (UTC).
I have never heard of anything laziness-related named 'Dean Moxham' and am removing it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.240.202.169 ( talk) 23:02, 3 January 2007 (UTC).
81.145.242.139 ( talk · contribs) just removed the bible section, and i restored it because i think it's valuable and relevant. If anyone else thinks it should go, please let me know what you see as wrong with the section, and i'll do my best to fix it. Foobaz· o< 02:17, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
I readded this as part of a larger "In Philosophies and Religions" section, merging the lead's comment on Christianity there ( diff). I believe this addresses the objections apart from User:70.136.192.141's personal opinions about the Bible. Please add other notable philosophical stances, within the normal standards. -- tiny plastic Grey Knight ⊖ 13:30, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Proverbs 18:9 says, "One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys." This is a much stronger statement than any in the article. 206.123.253.82 ( talk) 02:24, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
"An example of laziness would be a perfectly healthy person living at home with ones parents until the age of thirty years without the desire to get a job or find a career in ones life being in all ways dependent on ones parents for support." This seems to be written as an attack on a particular person, and at least contributes nothing to the article. Removed until anyone sees fit to add it back. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.136.192.141 ( talk) 02:40, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone else find it nearly as humorous as I that the article is very short? In fact, the discussion dwarfs it considerably... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.97.187.58 ( talk) 18:41, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Why is Christian the only philosophy represented in this "definition"? The cultural opinions of everyone else are ignored. The definition is too simple. What's with the creepy personal discussion in attempt a definition? Something went wrong here when Dean Moxham couldn't be knocked off. I think its funny, but since most people aren't on the inside of that joke, it should be removed. $$$/ 132.198.240.170 04:46, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
I don't think this artical should link to recluse. Just because someone is reclusive doesn't make them lazy. I don't see the connection. Could someone explain this to me? I'm going to remove the Recluse link for now.
Sontag12 —Preceding comment was added at 14:16, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
What is the evolutionary explanation of laziness? It is understandable why a lion would wish to conserve energy by remain idle been hunts. But do mental tasks require much energy? If not, why, then, is there often a greater desire to engage in nonproductive sedentary activities than in productive sedentary activities? ...Why might a student, for instance, choose playing a video game over doing homework? Maybe it has something to do with this, but I would think that people, being incentive-driven animals capable of seeking after long-term payoffs, would still be able to prioritize activities accordingly. Yet often people resort to self-defeating procrastination. Tisane talk/ stalk 17:36, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
This article meets very few of Wikipedia's guidelines. The Leonard Carmichael quote seems to be misplaced, and the fact that Carmichael's personal wiki page incorporates a single solid source at druglibrary.org does not help the notability. It would take very little effort to accurately ascribe laziness to the (actually demonstrated) factors that cause and sustain it, such as Hyperbolic discounting. There is no such thing as "laziness" in psychology, but all behavior frequently attributed to it has some kind of explanation. It is only appropriate that we provide this explanation. 85.167.119.115 ( talk) 13:37, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
Larry Wall says that Laziness is a great virtue for programmers:
"Laziness: The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great virtue of a programmer."
-- http://www.hhhh.org/wiml/virtues.html
It seems like this should be mentioned somewhere.
RichMorin ( talk) 19:38, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Computer science has notions such as Lazy evaluation (sometimes implemented, as in Clojure, by "lazy data structures". This should be mentioned on this page.
RichMorin ( talk) 19:38, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
99.112.212.152 ( talk) 07:22, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
http://www.kortexplores.com/node/46
This is a well written article on why laziness (together with greed, although humans are evolved much more towards laziness and out of greed) gives rise to high level function of human intelligence and evolved thereafter.
Can someone contribute an evolutionary perspective of human laziness? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Otivaeey ( talk • contribs) 00:18, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
Laziness may also be a by-product of many underlying mental health issues and forms of psychopathology such as depression, ADHD, sleep disorders, and schizophrenia,[3][4] in which case it is known as avolition. Are you serious as weed will lead you to heroin ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.245.137.29 ( talk) 00:09, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
The second paragraph begins with a reference to Freud's pleasure principle. The linked article says nothing about laziness. Is the implication that "laziness" does appear in the table of contents of one of Freud's books? Which one? Even so, that fact seems not to merit the "despite," for the claim to which it counts as counter-evidence is that "laziness" does not appear in the tables of content of most technical books. So, it's a confusing reference and I think should probably be removed. Or at least clarified. Or am I just being thick? dweinberger 13:18, 19 July 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dweinberger ( talk • contribs)
Several of the citations included the Psychology section are unrelated to the topic. The statement "Thomas Goetz, University of Konstanz, Germany, and John Eastwood, York University, Canada, concur that aversive states such as laziness can be equally adaptive for making change" does not link to any research from Thomas Goetz and John Eastwood, but instead links to a YouTube video of "Who Moved My Cheese."
The next line includes a quotation with no citation: "being mindful and not looking for ways out of it, simultaneously to be also open to creative and active options if they should arise."
The line following states: "They point out that a relentless engaging in activities without breaks can cause oscillations of failure". This sentence contains a grammatical error, it should read "They point out that a relentless engagement in activities..." In addition, "oscillations of failure" is a phrase I can find no meaningful definition of. Perhaps this behavior does cause failure in some way, but how has not been explained. This section links to a TED video regarding fairness perceptions in primates.
-- Jspain90 ( talk) 21:23, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
Misoponia redirects here, but the term appears nowhere on the page. Seems like it should. 136.62.144.170 ( talk) 01:54, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
what is meant by 'Peter, University of Calgary'? Is Peter just some guy who used to go there? I can't find any article relating to ADHD with this Adhiyana ( talk) 16:07, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
In the phrase "It has also been shown that laziness can render one apathetic to reactant mental health issues such as anger, anxiety, indifference, substance abuse, and depression." each thing from anger to the end is a hyperlink to their respective Wikipedia page, except indifference, which is a hyperlink to the page for schizoid personality disorder, thus making an equivalence between pathological indifference and SzPD. While it is true that the DSM-5 conceptualisation of SzPD (not the psychoanalytic conceptualisation) involves indifference to others and to the outside world in general, equivalating it with pathological indifference is reductionist to the point of being wrong. I'd be interested to hear any justification for making this equivalence. Anditres ( talk) 00:04, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
Basharat aziz dar is the worlds laziest person according to the oral history of the native village as well as the survey of district administration kupwara.currently he is living in srignar in sepration. Jk Nasir khan4233 ( talk) 15:20, 13 February 2023 (UTC)