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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Efficiently Lazy

I mentioned this LONG time ago. It's about truly being lazy. It's really hard to explain so open your mind a bit.
Being a perfectly lazy person has to be efficient. Why? A lazy person is, well, lazy. They don't want to repeat steps or procedures. It's better to do it once and get it over with. If you can do everything once without repetition or mistakes, you are efficient. You don't need extra time to redo or check everything all over. Does it make sense?

Here is an example. You are asked to wash dishes at home but you feel lazy so you wait for everybody to finish before getting started on dishes. This way, you clean all the dishes in one go instead of cleaning and waiting for people to finish. Your "laziness" delay the washing process BUT at the same time, you increase your efficiency to doing all the dishes only once.

Now, this is true laziness at work. If you can convert your lazy skills into efficiency, people will forget how lazy you are and remember how efficient you truly are.

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