True Efficiency will come when one is starving, opening their own business and having to live
off what they make. Period

Life’s little lessons become well learned when you strike out on your own.

a lazy person is one who does not WANT to work, period. A productive person is one who wants to devote the least amount of resources to a project while doing the best job possible.

The word you are looking for is efficiency. Productivity is close, but effecient is better. An efficient person often feels lazy because they want to finish the job in 2 hours and do it right while everyone else feels fine finishing the job in 8 hours and not really caring about whether they did it right or not.

I think many efficient people who work in office environments know what I’m talking about. It is pretty clear when the people around aren’t very efficient.

There’s no such thing as “talent”—there’s practice, hard-work and preferences (i.e. usually you do things you like better than things you don’t like, and that’s simply because they’re a hobby rather than a burden).

Of course, practice helps anyone, but surely you’re not saying that no-one ever has a natural aptitude for particular areas? Mozart, Einstein, Leonardo, even Michael Jordan always had more than just plain sweat on everyone else.

Mathew
the-making-of.signal7.com.au

Now that IS something I find very easy to do, it happens every time I collect my son from nursery! ;-)

CC

Surround yourself with talent better than yourself.

No matter how talented I have ever thought myself to be, I am comfortable with people that are better than me. Many talented people fear people that can compete with them - by doing so, they limit their collaboration potential. You will never be great unless you learn how to surround yourself with greatness and to also be comfortable with it.

If you don’t have Idea you can work all day and do nothing. :)

When I work on some design, i have periods when I lose inspiration (find my self repeating-stall), someone could call that laziness, but when I am challenged with Idea (born from laziness period) I can break through like bull (dancing at the same time).

So I think talent summons Art and if you believe in it everyone will.

It’s the synergie of the gift and the training that make the talent.

Then there’s me, who beats the block into the round hole… :-)

…have had plenty of practice, but their natural talent (some have no formal training) is the difference…

How do you know that these ‘naturally talented’ people haven’t had an informal education? They could have educated themselves to a much higher level than what they would be at if they were to simply attend College/University.

Whilst it’s possible that some people are born more ‘creative’ than others, no-one is going to be born with astounding XHTML/CSS, PHP or Photoshop skills - everyone must learn this.

I’m a strong believer, however, that anyone who is seen as ‘lacking natural talent’ in a certain area (as far as things not coming as easily to them as it does others), can became just as good as the ‘naturally talented’ person, if they have the will to be, and put in the effort. To me, anyone who says “I wish I could be as good, but i’m afraid that person has natural talent, and I don’t”, is simply lazy, or doesn’t want it enough.