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Are there ways to artificially fix laziness?

Recently, I have been doing a particularly challenging task. It felt quite painful because I had to continuously fight the urge to stop doing whatever I was doing and watch some brainrot content. After finishing that task, I thought to myself: Why am I feeling lazy? My best guess for...

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Are there ways to artificially fix laziness?

Recently, I have been doing a particularly challenging task. It felt quite painful because I had to continuously fight the urge to stop doing whatever I was doing and watch some brainrot content. After finishing that task, I thought to myself: Why am I feeling lazy? My best guess for...

Dec 8, 20244

Are there ways to artificially fix laziness?

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Recently, I have been doing a particularly challenging task. It felt quite painful because I had to continuously fight the urge to stop doing whatever I was doing and watch some brainrot content. After finishing that task, I thought to myself: Why am I feeling lazy?

My best guess for that question right now is the idea that humans are adapted to conserve calories as much as possible. Humans are evolved to be savannah hunter-gatherers who had very limited amount of food, so laziness probably was a good adaptation to them. The particularly hard-working ancient humans probably were more likely to die from starvation. Therefore, it made sense for them to evolve mental... (read more)

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