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"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others."
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
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All too often, we’ll stridently defend the status quo without ever fully knowing whether it’s harming or helping us to do so.
It’s just what we’ve always done, we say again and again.
- If you're late for work, you're not committed to the job.
- If I can show up on time, you can show up on time.
- If you don't give more hours, you're not making a sacrifice.
But are workers who automatically conform to unscientific customs in the workplace really better workers?
We're similarly irrational when complaining that entire, incoming generations are terminally lazy.
- Over 70 million people in America today are 18 or younger. That’s a lot of lazy.
If all incoming generations are lazy, wouldn't we all eventually become lazy?
Can there be such a thing as The Laziest Person in the World? The Laziest Generation in History?
No. Laziness is subjective and individually interpreted. We lazily "see" it. We don't measure it by a global standard.
I've arrived on time to work many times in my life.
But I did so many times with a crushing hangover.
Sometimes I just showed up drunk with whiskey in my bag.
At least I was on time, right?
Timeliness and tardiness don’t share an obvious correlation with laziness.
There are 8.2 billion interpretations worldwide of "lazy." Its true meaning can’t be universally understood by the word alone.
The same is true of a person in sobriety from alcohol. Who decides if they're "a better person" as a result of sobriety?
My mom would say I'm a better person.
But she’d just as likely say I should be "using your Master’s degree more."
- next time Tardiness did not derail the War on Terror.
- listening Wire "Ex Lion Tamer"
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