Lazy

What a terrible word. No one wants that label. But today I’m wearing the lazy label. At this moment I am supposed to be working in PyTorch so I can update my natural language processing book, but I don’t feel like it.

Get over being lazy

What should you do with yourself when you feel lazy like this? When your ambition has flown out the window and your goals seems likes fool’s errands? What do we do? We ask Google Lab Generative AI! Here is the response I got:

Wow. I found that really helpful. And I learned a new word: avolition, which Google said was a lack of motivation and the inability to start or complete tasks. It can make it difficult to get things done, even simple tasks like washing dishes or driving to the store. Then Google went too far and said it was a symptom of some scary things, so I stopped reading. Yikes!

Are you a bad person if you feel lazy?

I like the fact that laziness was not presented as a character flaw, which is how I was just thinking of myself, lazy and flawed. With the past year I’ve had, I do have a right to claim burnout emotionally, physically. But you have to climb out of burnout and this post gave specific things you can do to get going again. Most I agree with. I am not completely in agreement with tidying your workspace because that sounds like something I would do to avoid work!

Try a new space

The one that surprised me was to work in a new environment. I see students on campus finding cool places to work, usually with their laptops, or paper, or white-boarding. I took my work to another part of the house and it really did give me a renewed perspective and I actually got some work done.

Thank you Google Generative AI!