Laziness makes us better

The highlight of the first lecture was when Professor Marcelo Ang displayed many inventions. At that moment, I really could not help appreciating human’s creativity. However, after going through those inventions again, I came to realize that it was our laziness that motivated us.

I remember quite clearly that one of the inventions is a new type of chopsticks with a fan hanging on them to help cool down the noodles. Obviously, the fact proves that people now were too lazy to even blow cold the hot noodles and attempts to find a substitute which was called “invention” in order to save their energy.

From Prof Benjamin K. Sovacool’s point of view, technology has to work out based on the reality or the needs of society. In my opinion, one of the needs of society is our desire to be lazier tomorrow. Actually, there is no doubt that laziness is the human’s nature. Therefore, the process of satisfying our nature is just when we show our creativity. That is why laziness can be treated as a motivation.

Theoretically, people’s laziness is dispensable to every further step of historical develpment. People were not willing to trudge, they invented automobiles and planes. People hated waiting for the carrier-pigeon for couples of weeks, they invented telephone, television and Internet. People did not want to work by hand, they invented mechanization and automation. Even for watching TV, because people were too lazy to move, they invented remote controller finally.

In fact, it is people’s attitudes that decide whether the effect of laziness works. If someone is very lazy but he still do not think of change, then his laziness will ruin him sooner or later. On the contrary, if he takes more time to work out a treatment that can simplify the difficulties in life without too much effort, he will be respected for benefiting the whole world.

In conclusion, people’s laziness can reflect what they need and help them find the way to meet their needs accordingly. As for people themselves, they can not be content to stand still and enjoy the right of being lazy. Conversely, thay have to pay their creativity for the right of being lazy.