Laziness Does Not Exist

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🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Today, social psychologist Devon Price makes the intriguing and ultimately hopeful case that laziness is a myth, a lie, a pernicious trap with no other purpose than to make us feel lousy for not doing more. Host: Rufus Griscom Guest: Devon Price (This episode first aired in October 2021.) 🎁 Get 20% off a Next Big Idea Club subscription when you use code PODCAST at https://nextbigideaclub.com/ 📩 We recently launched a daily Substack! Sign up today at https://bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com/

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0:00.0	LinkedIn presents.
0:05.4	Some episodes stick with us and keep coming up in our conversations.
0:10.4	Today we're revisiting one of them an interview I did with social psychologist
0:14.6	Devon Price author of the 2021 book Lazyness does not exist.
0:19.5	Devon's thesis which is right there in the title, is that the whole concept of laziness is a myth, a lie, a pernicious trap designed to make us feel lousy for not doing more, more, more in every sector of our lives.
0:36.0	We're always pushing ourselves, but Devon asks, why?
0:40.7	Who are we trying to please? What are we trying to prove? What if when we feel
0:46.3	quote-unquote lazy it's not a moral failure? It's a sign that we need to slow down.
0:52.1	Take a beat, chill out.
0:55.0	Here's the other key insight I took away from Devon's book and this conversation.
1:00.0	When we're in a healthy place, stress-free, interacting with people we care about,
1:05.4	when those things line up, motivation is natural.
1:08.8	It's not something that needs to be summoned or manufactured or willed on a daily basis.
1:14.2	I think that's a beautiful message.
1:16.8	I found it to be true, and I'm excited for you
1:19.6	to hear more about it from Devon. I'm Rufus Griskam and this is the next big idea. Today does
1:28.4	laziness really exist? exist. I'm going to do something unusual this week.
1:44.0	I'm going to do something unusual this week. I'm going to share with you a little bit about
1:55.4	our process here at the Next Big Idea Podcast. And I think it's best to do this with my partner
2:00.4	in the show. Next Big Idea producer, Caleb Bissinger.
2:04.3	Hi, Caleb.
2:05.1	Hey Rivas.
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