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water rat · Joined: 30 Aug 2014 Posts: 1098 Location: North Antarctica

Seems I, and you are smarter, and lazier than we thought. Good for me! Good for you!

Have someone click the link below for you:

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20140228-jobs-for-the-smart-but-lazy

esl_prof · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 2:04 am Post subject:

santi84 · Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 1317 Location: under da sea

I wish.

AGoodStory · Joined: 26 Feb 2010 Posts: 738

Ha, ha! Great thread title, Water Rat! I thought it was going to be a request for job leads for the "smart, but lazy," which might have been very entertaining! (Article is total junk, as you obviously know.) Very Happy

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esl_prof · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 7:31 pm Post subject:

Of course teaching is for the lazy! College instructors here in the U.S. are in the classroom only 12-15 hours per week, 30 weeks/year, yet they earn a full-time salary. Yep! Smart and lazy they are.

johnslat · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 7:45 pm Post subject:

Um, isn't everyone who's really smart lazy, too? Very Happy

"As Kierkegaard once said, ‘Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good’ "

"I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy."

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."

And let's not forget, laziness is a great motivator:

"I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble."
"All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness."

Lazily,
John

Sashadroogie · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 9:09 pm Post subject:

Wasn't Descartes supposed to be so lazy that he invented his co-ordinate geometry to avoid having to slog through Euclidean theorems and proofs etc?...

water rat · Joined: 30 Aug 2014 Posts: 1098 Location: North Antarctica

Didn't the truly intelligent computers in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy have to be persuaded to calculate anything? Because being genuinely smart they didn't want to do anything?

MuscatGary · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 11:20 pm Post subject:

An ex - boss of mine used to give me strange assignments. Eventually he told me that his father had taught him that the best way to find the easiest solution to a problem was to give the problem to the laziest man available!