Who of us since childhood has not heard sayings like "water does not flow under a lying stone", or "do not put off until tomorrow what you can do today", or other sayings that denigrate and blame laziness?
We are all explained from childhood that laziness is bad, that such a state should never be allowed.
But let's look at laziness from a different angle. Laziness is the engine of progress, no matter how strange it may sound. Just think, many inventions were invented to make our life easier.
Basically, laziness is the engine when we do not want to perform repetitive routine actions, which, due to their methodicalness, lead a person into a state of deadly melancholy.
All interest in life disappears, because a person begins to seem to himself like a robot. Exactly when everything gets bored, and simply hands down in powerlessness, and the most important driving force begins to work - our thought.
While we are lazy, the thought works. And it moves in the direction in which you need to think once so that you never have to work again.
Or, at least to minimize such a need before pressing one button. This seemingly paradox sets the whole world in motion, provoking the emergence of innovative developments and ingenious ideas.
And progress is leaping forward at a frantic pace - after all, people are very lazy by nature!
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It is thanks to laziness that millions of units of technical devices have been created, a lot of programs have been written, and many new technologies have been created. And there are many simple examples from the life of the most ordinary people.
For example, in 1902, a married American couple took a road trip. During this trip, they were caught by the rain, as a result, the husband forced his wife, Mary Andersen, to keep the windows open, and, sticking his head out the window, inform him of any changes on the road.
She did not like it, and a quiet, modest housewife, a year later, patented one little thing, without which it is now difficult to imagine any modern car - wipers.
One more example. One industrial chemist named Victor Mills was overjoyed at the news that he was a grandfather. However, what was his disappointment when his wife made him wash the diapers behind his grandchildren, which did not please him at all.
When Mills got tired of this, he came up with disposable diapers, for which parents around the world still thank him.
A few more cases:
In one editorial office of an American newspaper, a certain Betty Nesmith Gremit worked as a proofreader. When she got tired of sending an article for a thousand corrections for revision, which had to be reprinted all the time, she became thoughtful, and the result of her thoughts was the famous stationery - "proofreader", known to all office workers, schoolchildren and students for its indispensability.
American Ray Thomplinson is considered the father of e-mail, but the same laziness led him to this. His job was to carry documents and information on media around the office.
After a while, he got tired of it, and knowing that all employees have computers, he created e-mail, which later began to be used everywhere.
The karaoke machine is the invention of a Japanese man named Inoue Daisuke, who worked as an accompanist at a bar. He had to learn a lot of tunes all the time, and he created a machine that began to play for him. Although his laziness let him down, he did not patent the invention.
That is why we can say that Laziness is the engine of progress, you just need to think about it and see the whole situation on both sides of the coin.
Geneticists at the American National Institute of Psychiatry have found a drug that can rid a person of the gene for laziness, because of which people suffer from it. It is hoped that scientists will stop their research on primates, otherwise the world will not see so many delights of progress.