Are You Lazy?

The answer of course is yes, at least in part. You could do more. You could work harder, smarter, faster and with greater care.

People are complex creatures; some are just flat lazy and will not care for their wives, their children or even themselves. With the right moral training and a cultural emphasis favoring industriousness, most people could learn to work and prosper in some typical middle class fashion.

Really, most people are energetic and assiduous regarding what they care deeply about or enjoy doing.  How can we motivate the lazy person to master his resistance to work hard and long at what he neither cares about or enjoys doing?

He should be schooled to resort to the self-initiated trick of immediately tackling the disfavored chore each and every tine that he encounters one. That way he becomes unnaturally industrious, and the subject of laziness is diminished in importance for his life.