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Laziness is completely misunderstood.

And it’s set fire to more dreams than rejection or public embarrassment ever did. If you study the reasons for laziness and procrastination, it’s all cope.

And if you fall for these dangerous lies and give into pathetic excuses, you’ll regret it. Your biggest enemy isn’t other people. It’s your laziness. I’m going to say what I’m not supposed to say in this essay and it will piss some people off. Good.

Here’s how people are conned into becoming lazy:

They blame ADHD or being neurodivergent

Being neurodivergent isn’t the reason you fail to achieve your goals. ADHD didn’t steal your freaking dreams.

You weren’t born with a disadvantage.

It’s just a convenient lie to blame some outside cause which is the fastest way to fail in life. It’s a cheat code for mediocrity.

I’m neurodivergent. I f*cking love neurodivergent people. But being neurodivergent doesn’t stop you from achieving your goals.

In fact, some of the most successful people in history have ADHD or are neurodivergent. It’s actually a superpower. Michael Phelps, Bill Gates, Emma Watson, Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Paris Hilton, and Lily Allen are all neurodivergent.

They’ve done just fine. In interviews many of these folks often credit being neurodivergent for their interesting work ethic and view of the world.

Being neurodivergent might mean you work differently.

But it doesn’t mean you can’t work at all.

They call periods of supposed growth “burnout”

Burnout is another myth.

It makes you lazy. You’re not burned out. No. You’re just living a life and doing work you don’t give a flying f*ck about. And you’re spending time around people who you despise, working on missions you know are evil deep down.

If you climb the corporate ladder for long enough, you’ll definitely feel terrible. Or if you work for a painful boss you’ll want to escape too. Or if you have no permission to be creative or make decisions it’ll suck the life out of you.

See these signs and do something about it instead of booking your 5th holiday to Greece this year to escape.

Burnout has nothing to do with working hard or hustle culture.

It has to do with the world telling you to change and you not changing. Doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result is insanity. It’s low IQ.

And it’s your fault, not some mythical burnout virus that kissed you on the mouth and made you sick.

They believe in “out of office” replies

Before the 2020 bat virus there was this relic known as “out of office” replies.

When I used to work in a bank I’d go on holidays twice a year and turn mine on. Everyone who got my out of office reply secretly cursed my name and hated me for not being available for a large amount of time.

This was acceptable. You could get away with it.

Then the 2020 bat virus hit and sent the world into lockdown. It produced a technological revolution that led to a productivity boom. With it came the expectation you would check emails and your phone and reply to anything urgent.

Some people didn’t get the memo.

They’re living in a pre-AI world where the world closes down while they’re away tanning their titties on the beach in Bali. They use the excuse “I was away on holidays for 6 weeks so I didn’t check my phone.”

You privileged a**hole. How dare you.

You’re entitled to have a holiday. But you can reply to a few texts every few days and it won’t kill you.

Those who live this fantasy fail badly in life, because while they’re away, the people with the opportunities are flirting with your competitors and cheating on you.

They adopt a “slow life” because a spiritual Instagram guru recommended it

This new trend makes me sick.

You think you need to slow down but that’s a lie too. The spiritual guru tells you the slow life is what you need, but that’s because it aligns with the work they do. It’s their brand. It’s being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian.

It’s not fact-based.

If you approach your goals in life with a slow approach, well, you get slow freaking results and waste time for no reason. Or you don’t make the money you could be making because you’re moving slower for no good reason.

If you go slow results slow down to snail speed.

That’s not a cheat code or a life hack or something to print on a t-shirt. That’s f*cking stupidity. Never celebrate being a moron or mediocrity. Acting with a sense of urgency and moving faster with systems is obvious.

One day soon you will die. So if you don’t make it happen, it ain’t gonna happen and you’ll have regrets about what you could have done and your unused potential. That hurts more than a knife inserted up your butthole.

They let normal life problems halt their goals

Your parents get sick or the dog died.

You act surprised. You act like you’re the first person in history to put elderly parents into a retirement home.

Listen carefully: you’re not special.

Everyone including me deals with everyday life problems like this. They have nothing to do with your goals or your daily habits.

You don’t stop wiping your ass because granny got a cancer diagnosis. No. You help granny and keep functioning like a mature adult, or your life falls to bits and you end up on the street homeless.

The correct mindset is to assume chaos and tragedy will strike your life because they are built into the human existence and keep going despite the noise around you.