Excuses For Being Lazy

5 Awesome Scientific Excuses You Can Give For Being Lazy

1. For some of us, it is in our genes. We just cannot help it!

Have you always fought against laziness and lost? That may be because laziness is in your genes. In such people, there is a mutation in a gene that controls the proteins for the dopamine receptors in your brain. Dopamine is linked to physical activity and hence a mutation in this gene could be making you lazier.

2. You can be lazy because the second mouse always gets the cheese

Ever observed what happens when a teacher asks the class a very difficult question?

The first guy to answer may or may not get the right answer. But because he is a risk taker, he will obviously go for it anyway. Many times he will give the right answer, and many times he fails. But hey, he is the smart one, right?

WRONG!

It is the other lazy guy who has solved the problem too but he waits in the shadows for the enthusiastic guy to give his answer. If the enthu guy fails, the lazy guy knows what the wrong answer is and will hence give the right answer.

This way the chances lazy guy always gives the right answer is 100%.

3. Human evolution has always supported laziness

Back when we were cavemen, overenthusiasm could kill us. If we had evolved to be extremely active it could have killed us.

In that way, we evolved to be lazy. Our ancestors had to carefully conserve energy before the next meal came along. So the next time you feel lazy you can blame your caveman ancestors.

But in all fairness, we evolved to be physically active too.

4. Laziness leads to creativity and deep thought about your future

When you laze around a part of your brain called the Default Mode Network is activated. The brain takes a break from conscious thought and relaxes into daydreaming and creativity.

This part of your brain also gives you motivation and intention to do well in your future.

So, yeah, laziness may actually be good for your future.

5. With laziness, you apparently can become an awesome computer programmer

Larry Wall, the inventor of Perl programming language rates Laziness as the highest attribute a computer programmer needs to be successful.

That’s because lazy people always find innovative ways to make programs much more efficient by being lazy and not writing millions of lines of codes when they can reduce that to thousands of lines of efficient codes.

SOURCE: http://www.storypick.com/excuses-for-being-lazy/