Research Paper On Laziness

Psychology has revealed how the learning perspective is concerned with the environment and experiences leading to effects on a person’s actions. Within this perspective, behaviorists focus on the environmental rewards and punishers that maintain or discourage specific behaviors. B.F. Skinner once stated, I am sometimes asked, ‘Do you think of yourself as you think of the organisms you study?’ The answer is yes. So far as I know, my behavior at any given moment has been nothing more than the product of my genetic endowment, my personal history, and the current setting. (Skinner, 1983). In the average college classroom, behaviorism effects students’ way of learning in that their behavior is shaped by either positive or negative reinforcement.

All my life I have been a lazy person, doing just enough to get by. Most of the time, in high school, I was content with just a “C”. The only time I wasn’t, was if it was a class I liked, and I paid attention to. If this was the case, I could have received a 99% on a test and been dissatisfied. But, for the rest of my classes, which were most of my classes, that I didn’t like, I never paid attention to or did homework, and I still managed to do well on tests. So basically I didn’t do anything except take tests and I still got satisfactory grades. In school I was so lazy that there could have been a project due worth about 20% of the final grade and I still wouldn’t do it.

Novelist, Christopher Morley, in his essay, On Laziness,” argues that laziness is not always negative. Morley’s purpose is to argue that people who are lazy are becoming very successful in life in order to help people understand that laziness can be positive. He adopts a satirical tone in orders to send strong messages to the readers in a humorous way. Morley supports his implication by first mocking lazy people then he describes attractiveness of lazy people, finally he uses ethos in his essay to present his argument in a more authentic way.

It is one of the most underrated troubles. For it causes many issues in the world, though the blame always seems to fall upon some other reason of cause. Laziness causes people to not want to fulfill their wildest dreams to refusing to do necessary duties. On the island of the lotus eaters, Odysseus faces laziness at its most extreme. The lotus flowers cause people to magically lose their longing for home. Sailors don’t have much control over their laziness, for it was forced upon them by way of magic lotus flowers from the natives. My troubles with laziness come from giving up because something is “too hard”, when really I just am being lazy. It causes me to not work as hard as I should to achieve my goal of having a happy and healthy lifestyle. Laziness in Odysseus’ story and mine are similar because we both lose the lust for our goal. Luckily we can both overcome laziness with hard work and determination, even if Pandora releases it from the box

It has become common today to dismiss the laziness of those around you. We today see being lazy as normal, and we as a species will naturally follow in the footsteps of those around us, especially if following the herd is the easy thing to do. We are the worst generation ever, we will forever be glued to our phones, and ipods, and computers, seeing the horrors going on in the world and doing nothing to stop them.

Although Charles Darwin is usually just looked at in the light of purely biology, his work that impacted other fields such as psychology or his work that lead to the rapid expansion of certain fields such as ethology, is often looked over. Darwin’s work impacted these fields both directly and indirectly at such a level of influence that some people believe that psychology should be looked at as pre- and post-Darwin. On the Origin of Species, while being primarily about biological phenomena and theories, was one of these works that impacted psychology indirectly. Other than giving a new perspective for psychologists to possess when contemplating different ideas, Darwin’s work on natural selection lead to the creation of evolutionary psychology.

It is something that we witness day to day. Whether it's a kid who sits on the couch watching cartoons and eating chocolate or a someone who turns work in half completed, laziness is laziness. But illness is not laziness. There comes a point when your body is fatigued, where your muscle becomes weak and your stamina runs out. For most people, this happens during a work out. For chronically ill (My example in the link is someone with chronic fatigue syndrome, but a variety of chronic conditions or illnesses can cause major fatigue and cause your life to seemingly fall apart.) people, this can happen by doing one or two simple tasks. (Link 9) For example, I can get up out of bed, do my basic morning routine; Use the restroom, wash my hands, brush my teeth, maybe wash my face (if it's a good day.). This takes about 20-30% of my energy reserves for the day. Most people would see this as laziness, but it isn't. Extreme fatigue, especially from a mystery or chronic illness, can cause stress, which causes more fatigue, it's a deadly

The Bible paints us the picture of being diligent as one of being thorough, persistent and works hard. They keep the ways of the Lord in their heart. Those of folly lack the sense to know the difference in what they are doing is not the ways of the Lord. As for those that are speaking of as lazy, they are lost and doomed to a life of strife, hardship, and ultimately final judgment to the fiery depths. Only the wisdom of a diligent man can help save those of folly and lazy, and guide them toward God.

“On Laziness” by Christopher Morely is an essay on laziness. He claims there are benefits to laziness and that most wise, experienced people are, in fact, lazy. Morley’s purpose is to glorify lazy people and persuade people to believe that they can be successful because he lists examples of smart lazy people and he uses many examples in which laziness is helpful and the opposite is destructive to support his cause. Christopher Morely used examples of lazy successful people to make his point. “Doctor Johnson, who was one of the world’s great philosophers, was lazy.”

The problem of laziness stems not just from a daily physical laziness but also from a spiritual lack. In medieval times little was known about the world and technology was just developed enough to allow survival. They had to work hard just to survive and the only thing that sustained them was their faith in higher powers.

The main two types of personalities the Tim Urban talk about in “Inside the mind of a procrastinator” is number one the procrastinator and number two the non-procrastinator. “We need to think about what we're really procrastinating on because everyone is procrastinating on something in life.” This means we are all procrastinator in something from either being a procrastinator in homework/work or being a procrastinator in exercising. When he says that there are two types of procrastinator personalities is technically wrong and there in only one and that personality is the procrastinator. “Brains have a Rational Decision-Maker in them .

I believe that, as a result of the civil unrest in Montreal at the time, social media would be split between who to support. Discrimination based on religion was still prominent in the 50's. As a result, I believe that there would be more support for Duplessis in these circumstances. Roncarelli and the Jehovah's Witnesses were the current scapegoats for the civil unrest at the time, and thus would be treated similar to many of the current scapegoats in society are today. Biased, often uninformed or ill-informed opinions would take the forefront of the discussion and push angered feelings into the discussions. Media often times supports the rich and wealthy in today's society, but in the 50's it was exponentially greater support. As such, Duplessis

Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud are both widely known respectively for their natural selection and psychoanalytic personality theories. Charles Darwin helped further the field of evolutionary psychology while Sigmund Freud helped discover the unconscious which is still debated to this day about whether it is real. Darwin’s natural selection theory talks about how organisms adapt to survive and the two types of sexual selection which is intersexual and intrasexual selection. Freud’s theory of psychoanalytic personality talks about how the id, ego, and superego affects our behavior and talks about how our unconscious is a very important aspect in our lives. Both theories’ comprehensiveness, theoretical soundness, and empirical value have

Generally, lazy people are not admired. Society, as a whole, prefers those who are willing and able to actively and positively contribute to its progress. Effort is praised while indifference can typically be seen as shameful. Christopher Morley understands this. In his short essay, “On Laziness,” he indirectly confronts the slothful in an effort to make them see the error of their ways. Morley deals with the topic of laziness in a overly sarcastic and satirical tone to stress the absurdity of the trait.

Don 't talk about your favorite reality show or anything else that highlights your lazy side. Yes, you are human and like to have some downtime, but you are not trying to show off the laziest side of