I don’t like the words lazy or procrastinator. In a society that defines value by what someone can produce/perform—where do the laid-back individuals fit? Any thing that comes into my bubble gets evaluated: What is it? Why is it here? Why do I HAVE to do it? Who are you? WHY? I’m not lazy, I just want to know why I’m doing something. It needs to have purpose and something that seems worthwhile about it. If I’m assigned a seemingly mindless task or a task that isn’t well thought out, I have a hard time getting the motivation to be involved in the task. I realize that I don’t have to understand something to be willing to do it. I also realize that I can’t lean on my own understanding. My father often called me lazy and lacking work ethic. He was basically judging my person without understanding that there are different types of people. We thinkers must still survive and function within our families and societies despite our DNA.
Many businesses have adopted flexible work schedules and have made the work environment less formal. As long as the job gets done, who cares how many hours a human works per day? I’ve read about and have seen businesses that are very relaxed: couches, bean-bags, food always available, lots of coffee, and rooms dedicated for thinking in silence. Becca and I would love to lay around on bean-bags and talk about ideas, books, philosophy, psychology, etc.., all day/every day. I have met a few people that I can talk with for hours about such things. Some are inclined to do, and some are inclined to think/not do. Both are needed.
Many businesses have adopted flexible work schedules and have made the work environment less formal. As long as the job gets done, who cares how many hours a human works per day? I’ve read about and have seen businesses that are very relaxed: couches, bean-bags, food always available, lots of coffee, and rooms dedicated for thinking in silence. Becca and I would love to lay around on bean-bags and talk about ideas, books, philosophy, psychology, etc.., all day/every day. I have met a few people that I can talk with for hours about such things. Some are inclined to do, and some are inclined to think/not do. Both are needed.
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"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor." Victor Hugo
great quote!!!
i think i'm just a little lazy. i'm all for food and bean bags at work, though.
I tend to lean away from the bean bag thing. I just can't get into them. It's not my type of comfort. On the other hand, a nice comfy couch with something to put the legs up will tide me over just fine.
I'm into the thinking room. I like my office door closed with nothing going on sometimes. Sometimes that's how I drive to work too. I love the silence.
I think I am that kind of person in a doers body. I like to talk and think and comtemplate. I find that my high strung, overly active mind, inability to sit still for long and my need to do a lot of things, admittedly not well, just doing it because I can't pick which one I want to be involved with the most, as well as my guilt of not doing enough gets in the way of my true inner self. I wonder if sitting on the bean bag more would help these things.
Sounds like my job. Lots of coffee. Lots of rooms that I could dedicate to silence & thinking. Couch. Food.
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