THE STRENGTH OF LAZINESS

I have noticed that the only point where the whole world agrees without argument or dispute is on the question of laziness. You cannot serve God and be lazy, or the devil and be lazy either. No religion in this wide world tolerates laziness, even the Satanists, witches or wizards, name them, none is ever a friend of the lazy folks.

Looking for a job is a job on its own, and seeking contracts is not a lazy venture. That’s why some countries have - “job seekers” allowance. Laziness when viewed at a deeper level is not an easy job. How? Armed robbers, drug cartels, and cultism on campuses or elsewhere, are where you find the most disciplined set of human beings on earth. No weak or lazy folks are found among them.

Please, kindly pay a courtesy visit to their training sessions, and rehearsals to see first hand practical lessons. You will then know that jumping over electric fences, barb-wired walls, and doing crazy runs, requires a consistent training scheme, practices, and strict discipline. These are not easy jobs for gentlemen or ladies like you.

Someone like myself can never pass or get admitted into their group. Why? I am still very very lazy, I can’t meet their strict admission policies and processes. Up to this time, I’m space phobia, I still can’t climb hills, jump like an antelope, or run like a cheetah, not to talk of jumping over rooftops, ceilings, high walls, and fences. I understand myself, I don’t even know how to fire shots. I can’t meet up. You see what I mean?

To be admitted, you have to be trained to the point of acting like Jakie-chan to become a smart Thief, who can sneak, dive, hide, and run faster than a bullet, in perilous acrobatic stunts, in anticipation of being chased by the police, or ruthless angry mobs who will want to hack you down. These are no easy tasks for the lazy folks meen!

There are professional training centres, fully equipped for Yahoo, Yahoo boyz, fraudsters, and criminals, with their strict admission policies. One key element of their admission policy is that you must not be lazy. Why? In case, a lucrative business comes up in the middle of the night, your sleep has to be interrupted. The lazy folk who sleeps at 8 pm and wakes at 9 am, can‘t be admitted there.

It is even harder and more perilous to be lazy. No job, career, sect, or profession tolerates laziness. You’re fired, laziness is not in our DNA  -  “Whoever doesn't work must not eat". No food for the lazy. It‘s a standard rule of work ethics.

Every legitimate hard work naturally points towards blessing, while every legitimate laziness naturally points towards poverty, however glamorous the fruits thereof may look on the surface. Above all, the time of the lazy flies away like an overnight whirlwind, only to later realise that they have done something and gained nothing. Of course, it’s time to blame everyone else.

Our brains are incredibly complex, they take in huge amounts of information from the world around us and use it to help us understand what we see and experience. A study has identified a part of the brain that plays a critical role in making people more likely to gamble.

Our brains are also designed to work extremely quickly and in doing so, they often take shortcuts. Unfortunately, at times, these shortcuts can lead our brains to produce ideas and assumptions about the world that are not accurate. I call these incorrect output assumptions our ‘Thinking Errors’ or better still, ‘The Gamblers Fallacy’.

The first of these assumption errors is gambling fallacy, which depends mainly on probability. Sadly, our brains don’t always recognise complex probabilities. The gamblers have this illusive idea that they will hit the jackpot this last weekend of March 2025. The gambler believes that their big win is just in the corner.

Gambling is the love of money in its rawest form. It takes five forms, but in whatever form gambling takes, it is an inordinate desire to take a shortcut to get something without a legitimate exchange

What makes gambling so bad is that the money they plan to win is financed by the losses of other gamblers like them. The losses of others are the source of their celebrations. There are no good reasons for rejoicing because, in most cases, gamblers lose more than the actual money they invest. 

Gamblers remain in their bubble: “I flipped the coin 5 times, it landed on its Head and I didn’t win. If I do the 6th spin, there’s every probability it will land on its Tail" However, in reality, the chance of the coin landing on its head remains the same, just as it did on flips 1-5. This is because every of the flips is completely independent of the last. And the coin has no idea what side it landed on last. Can you see the thinking error? You just have to keep trying, with the illusion that you will hit it before the end of March 2025! 

Sadly, our brains usually work on fixed assumptions, the odds of winning do not increase by playing frequently. Unlike investment, over time, the more you gamble, the more you lose.The first rule of all gamblings is: “Don’t chase your losses” and ultimately, you lose more money with no one to console you.