War as an engine of progress. Is it true that laziness is the engine of technological progress? What is the basis of creative thinking?

You are now sitting on the Internet and reading this article only because half a century ago the USA and the USSR aimed their nuclear missiles at each other, for which they needed such a useful thing as a computer...

However, not only computers were created by order of the military. To the great indignation of pacifists, it must be admitted that our entire technological civilization and consumer society mainly owe its existence to such a vice of humanity as aggressiveness and bloodthirstiness.

Perhaps, if there were no wars and people would initially get along peacefully with each other, then our world would resemble something like a fairy-tale land of hobbits. Cozy huts with wells and cherry orchards instead of cities, where in ancient times people were driven by the threat of an adversary attack, forcing them to settle on top of each other in multi-story buildings.

And around this idyll there would be fields plowed with hoes and homespun clothes. For transport there are horses and bicycles, instead of hospitals there are healers who treat with herbs and spells.

Moreover, the bicycles would most likely be wooden. Since it was the arms race that contributed to the development of metallurgy for thousands of years, both in quantitative and qualitative terms.

From the time of hoary Antiquity until the 19th century, peaceful tools of labor were the same simple hammers, axes, sickles, nails and kitchen knives. What kind of development is there - the blacksmith acquired pieces of copper, bronze, iron (very expensive) and forged exactly the same sickle that his great-grandfathers had used. Did he need to invent new technologies and alloys for this?

Weapons and armor required a different approach. In an effort to make a more durable sword, gunsmiths invented steel, discovered hardening, and came up with damask steel. Probably, you shouldn’t even compare the manufacturing technologies of a Japanese sword and a simple scythe - there is a whole abyss between them.

Or let’s take such a seemingly completely peaceful tool as a turning tool with a special brazing. Born thanks to firearms: gun barrels and artillery shells, which he sharpened.

In general, the vast majority of durable and special alloys that are used today in industry and construction were created specifically for military purposes. As armor, as a projectile or as a part for the manufacture of military equipment.

By the way, about armor and shells. Already in the 19th century, their eternal confrontation led to the appearance of powerful guns and battleships. However, the latter required so much iron (steel appeared later) that their mass construction could begin only after industry began to increase metal production exponentially. A beneficial side effect of this was a reduction in the cost of iron and steel, which began to be used en masse for other, including peaceful, purposes.

But science fiction writers of the early twentieth century dreamed of tall buildings made of then newfangled aluminum - lightweight, not afraid of corrosion. But mass production of this miracle metal became possible only when military aircraft manufacturers became interested in it. In the same way, its respected brother titanium appeared in our world, which is required by the aerospace industry and shipyards of combat submarines.

As for chemistry, to which most of us have a negative attitude, few would doubt that it, too, is the evil product of the militarists. Indeed, the chemical industry owed its rapid development to the production of gunpowder and explosives, and then it was generously financed by customers of chemical weapons. And as a result, chemists had money to create synthetic dyes, medicines, and perfumes.

The synthetic material nylon is also a military invention, with which they tried to replace parachute silk. We will also include Kevlar here, and also add synthetic fuel (as a response to the shortage of gasoline in Germany at war).

It is interesting that even beet sugar owes its origin to the war: during the Napoleonic Wars, supplies of cane sugar to Europe sharply decreased, and then they decided to produce it from beets.

We should also thank the French Emperor for the fact that today we have store shelves filled with canned goods, piled up jars of marinades and juices. Because it was he who organized a competition for the best technology for preparing shelf-stable foods - in order to improve the food supply of his army.

Now let's go to the nearest boutique. It would seem that there is no smell of the army here: jeans, sheepskin coats, blouses. But you are wrong. Because the production of ready-made clothing in standard sizes began precisely when it was necessary to quickly dress tens and hundreds of thousands of soldiers in uniforms. After all, cutters and tailors could not serve them all individually.

Canned food did not save Bonaparte - as you know, the Cossacks chased him all the way to Paris. Where they began to impatiently demand snacks from local taverns, forcing the French to organize the first fast food “bistro” restaurants.

Meanwhile, the war required more than just weapons and equipment. Thousands of wounded people desperately cried out for help - and doctors came to their aid. It was the army “sculptors” who cut out arrows and bullets, sawed off arms and legs, and sewed up wounds, who made the greatest contribution to surgery.

Among them was Professor Nikolai Pirogov, who during the Crimean War for the first time organized mass care for the wounded using ether anesthesia, plaster casts, and triage of victims. His methods subsequently began to be used when setting up hospitals during natural and man-made disasters.

We remember with a shudder the sadistic experiments of Hitler's doctor Mengele, which he carried out on living people: freezing them, inflicting terrible injuries and burns on them, dousing them with caustic chemicals, infecting them with diseases, placing them in a rarefied atmosphere. However, few people know that all the results of the terrible experiments that Mengele meticulously recorded were invaluable for medicine, and after the war a real hunt began for them.

The results of the monstrous experiments of another sadists in uniform - the Japanese "Unit 731" - have become a treasure for microbiologists. It is no coincidence that the Americans were quick to steal their work - which helped them create their famous Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Treatment of the wounded required not only the skill of the surgeon, but also new drugs, primarily antiseptics. And Alexander Fleming, who worked as a military doctor during World War I, devoted his further work to finding a drug that would save them from insidious infections. In 1928, it culminated in the discovery of penicillin.

Now let's leave the pharmacy and approach the avenue, looking at the countless cars smoking the air of our cities. As you may have guessed, the military also brought them to our world. The very first self-propelled carriage with steam traction was built by the Frenchman Cugnon in 1769 and was intended to transport cannons. A hundred years later, this idea was revived in the form of cars, which immediately began to be used for military purposes.

High-speed motor boats, which have become entertainment for the rich today, trace their ancestry back to their great-grandfathers, the torpedo bombers. The submarine, which revealed to us the secrets of the deep sea, was a purely military invention. And Jacques Cousteau even collected his scuba gear in 1943 in order to use it to commit sabotage against the Nazis who occupied France.

Let's remember aviation again. Until 1914, there were airplanes with fragile wings for brave eccentrics - and then they began to rapidly increase their size, engine power, and structural strength. And passenger planes, based on the experience of building bombers, showed that distances between European capitals could be measured in just a few hours of flight.

By the way, turbojet and turboprop engines, without which modern aircraft are unthinkable, are also military developments. Well, perhaps everyone knows that the space rockets that carried man into orbit and further to the Moon are direct descendants of the combat V-2.

Radar emerged as a means of detecting enemy ships and bombers. These “eyes and ears” of the army, which were already used in World War II, today help peaceful ships to sail smoothly and the air communication network to function.

An equally important component of the combat effectiveness of any army has always been communications, without which it is as impossible to fight as without ammunition. From mounted messengers, flag waving, and smoke signals, the military made a dramatic leap in the 20th century to the telephone and walkie-talkie.

The need to keep in touch both with each crew of an armored vehicle or reconnaissance squad (now even with an individual fighter), and between headquarters located hundreds and thousands of kilometers from each other, forced military design bureaus to look for new concepts and technologies. The peaceful applications of which were satellite television, FM radio and mobile communications.

But this was not enough for the generals holed up in bunkers. And so, in the 60s of the last century, the US Department of Defense Advanced Research and Development Authority (DARPA) set out to develop the concept of decentralized control of military and civilian facilities in a nuclear war. This is how ARPANET appeared, which became the prototype of the modern Internet.

I have listed only military developments already working for peaceful needs. However, militarism is preparing to present us with many more amazing and useful inventions.

For example, in the coming years, millions of disabled people will certainly be able to enjoy special electronic-mechanical corsets and prostheses that will help them walk and work again. This will happen if American engineers finish developing their combat supersuit with the so-called. "muscle enhancers".

Let’s not forget that such very promising areas as nanotechnology and genetics are also mainly carried out on orders from the military.

Therefore, although the struggle for world peace is a necessary matter, it is probably worth observing some measure in it. After all, cutting spending on military development threatens to curtail many projects that in the future could be used to benefit the peaceful development of mankind. Such is the paradox...

The famous Austrian philosopher Karl Popper (Karl Raimund Popper, 1902–1994) had a great influence on the development of not only philosophy. but also science. Suffice it to say that many famous and even great scientists - including Albert Einstein (1879-1955) - maintained friendly relations with him and believed that Popper's philosophical ideas helped them do what they did. Popper himself considered his most important characteristics to be the ability to “swim against the tide,” considering this not just his virtue, but also a necessary quality of any philosopher. For scientists, this doesn’t seem to be necessary, although it also happens. The same Einstein was a great master of “swimming against the tide.”

All three have different levels of “dissent.” Josephson and Baumgardner are dissidents of the present, but Barry Marshall's conflicts with the scientific community are a thing of the past. John Baumgardner also had normal working relationships with his colleagues; his dissent is in the interpretation of his own research, which is extremely unusual for a professional geophysicist. On the contrary, Brian Josephson, by his own admission, is avoided by his colleagues. Josephson publicly supports research into water "memory" and telekinesis experiments.

“I am an electrical engineer by training,” John Baumgardner tells us about himself. After four years of working in laser optics, I spent three years with a religious organization called Campus Crusade for Christ. I began to lecture on the origin of the Earth, following the text of the Old Testament, and soon discovered that preparing for the lecture turned into independent research for me. So in 1978 I came to the idea that the Great Flood could only occur in the case of very fast tectonic processes of a global nature. To develop this idea, I began work on my dissertation at the University of Los Angeles."

And again he is talking about himself: “My model allows that plate displacements, which according to traditional ideas took place over hundreds of millions of years, can occur even within a few weeks. The result of such rapid plate movements can be noticeable changes in the surface of continents and the ocean floor. The model is based on known physical laws, but in two cases I believe in divine intervention. Such interference could be associated with the acceleration of radioactive decay; then it becomes possible to explain the estimates of the age of rocks of hundreds of millions of years, which are given by radioisotope methods. Another case of intervention from above is associated with the process of rapid cooling of rocks after catastrophic tectonic shifts.”

Unlike Baumgardner, most of his colleagues do not consider the Flood to be a real event in the history of the Earth, and the American Geophysical Union has officially stated that it does not classify creationism as a scientific study. The latter circumstance creates a very serious psychological problem for John Baumgardner. However, he does not refuse membership in the Union: “I believe that I am called by the Lord to work in the scientific community, but not to be a scientific ranger.”

The words of John Baumgardner are a vivid illustration of the strangeness of the paths that lead a scientist to discovery. A textbook example of this kind is the scientific biography of Johann Kepler (1573-1630). Kepler's conviction in the existence of connections uniting all phenomena and processes in the solar system was the conviction of a deeply religious person. Belief in the solar system as a whole and careful analysis of astronomical observations allowed him to formulate three laws of planetary motion around the Sun and hypothesize about the determining role of the Moon for tides on Earth. For Kepler's contemporaries, his reasoning was perceived as a symbol of an anti-scientific approach; Galileo spoke very ironically about Kepler in his letters to friends.

The situation changed only when Isaac Newton mathematically derived Kepler's laws (without mentioning his name, however) from the laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation. Only after this did the “empirical generalizations” formulated by Kepler acquire the status of full-fledged laws, and Kepler himself acquired the status of a completely rational scientist.

A similar plot is connected with the name of Tsiolkovsky. The founder of astronautics, in his numerous writings, reflected on the settlement of resurrected people in space, and it was for this purpose that he formulated the concept of “rocket trains.” The Russian scientific community also treated Tsiolkovsky's ideas with great skepticism, which is why his articles were never published in scientific journals. Subsequently, however, it was the idea of ​​“rocket trains” that was embodied in the design of a multi-stage rocket, and Tsiolkovsky was post factum declared the founder of astronautics. At the same time, they tried not to remember about the settlement of humanity in space

“When the Lancet, which published our article in 1989, used the word “cure”, we believed that by now everyone should believe us, but another eight long years passed before people in Western countries began to recognize Helicobacter as a direct the cause of stomach ulcers,” Marshall told a magazine correspondent. But all these years, millions of people took medications (which they essentially did not need) or underwent surgery, which cost billions of dollars At that time, the behavior of the medical community seemed immoral to me, since skepticism about the effect of Helicobacter on the body influenced the acceptance decisions that are vital for patients. Continuing with the old methods of treatment was easiest for them. Overall, I was shocked by the level of resistance to our ideas and the fact that no one tested these ideas. Now, however, I believe that any new idea takes time to be accepted.”

Note that the turning point for Marshall’s ideas was the publication in The Lancet. In general, for those “swimming against the tide,” publication in a professional journal is extremely important; only it gives them the opportunity to be heard by the scientific community. Therefore, we should be grateful to the editors of The Lancet for their decision to publish an article that questions the foundations of gastroenterology. Max Planck did exactly the same thing in 1905 - ignoring the criticism of his colleagues, he, the editor of the Annalen der Physik, made the non-trivial decision to publish four articles by Albert Einstein - a little-known expert at the patent office.

Brian Josephson spoke about another, and perhaps least known, aspect of the scientist’s relationship with the scientific community: “In the late 60s, what I was doing lost its former interest for me, and I began to look for problems that would be interesting for me to tackle.” I became interested in Eastern philosophy and how it could fit in with physics. I read Fridtjof Capra's book The Tao of Physics. I had the feeling that there were, in fact, many things that conventional science did not admit and that it did not explore - for example, altered states of consciousness. At one of the conferences I heard the stories of Jacques Benveniste (1935-2004), who discovered that water “remembers” the substances that were once dissolved in it. If this discovery were confirmed, then we would be able to explain the mechanism of action of homeopathic medicines. The Benveniste report provoked a very strong reaction from the conference participants, and I was shocked at how poorly it was treated.”

Josephson defined his position as follows: “People are convinced that if an experiment cannot be reproduced at any point in time, then the phenomenon observed in this experiment should not be classified as really existing. In particular, those working in the field of scientific research in which phenomena and processes are highly reproducible cannot imagine that situations like cold fusion are possible, where such high reproducibility of the experiment is impossible. These people are taking an illegitimate step from “hard to reproduce” to “non-existent”.

The sharp reaction of Josephson's colleagues to such statements is quite understandable. In the image of science that is usually presented to society by scientists themselves, they are engaged in the development of theories and their experimental testing. A situation in which experimental results are difficult or impossible to reproduce does not fit into this image.

At least two stories from the history of physics demonstrate the discrepancy between this image and the real course of events. Therefore, without going into a discussion of the question of whether cold fusion and the research of Jacques Benveniste are science or pseudoscience, we admit that Brian Josephson touches on a very serious problem. European experimenters could not repeat Isaac Newton's famous experiment on decomposing white light into a spectrum for several decades. Edme Mariotte (16201984) spent ten years on this, but was never able to repeat what Newton had done in his laboratory. Note that James Prescott Joule (1818–1889) was unable to demonstrate to his colleagues his experiments on measuring the mechanical equivalent of heat. Modern historians suggest that the presence of colleagues (namely, the thermal radiation of their bodies) changed the readings of Joule's sensitive thermometer. In the case of Newton’s experiments, it was apparently necessary to accurately reproduce the experimental conditions, in particular, to make a prism from homogeneous glass without impurities.

Similar situations were explored in his works by the famous French sociologist of science Bruno Latour. In his opinion, what is observed in the laboratory differs from what is happening in real conditions, and for a modern scientist it is often necessary to actually agree with colleagues on the recognition of actually non-equivalent situations as equivalent.

The lessons of the history of science, apparently, have been learned by the defense departments; otherwise, it is difficult to explain the funding by the Soviet military of the inventors of the torsion generator, and by their American colleagues, of research into methods for recording neutrino fluxes from nuclear submarine reactors. Businessmen are not far behind them; Toyota and Canon supported cold fusion work for quite a long time after the scientific community had turned its back on this idea.

Science is forced to constantly balance between two modes of behavior. On the one hand, the scientific community is not able to test all those “revolutionary” ideas that are proposed for its consideration. On the other hand, without these ideas, science will cease to exist. And, of course, society should have the opportunity to hear about these ideas. Hear and think critically about them.

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Man as the engine of progress. 10 achievements of male laziness

We are not evil, sex-phobic harpies. We are completely white and fluffy male-loving cats. Now we will prove that everything cool happens on the planet thanks to men. Namely, their ability to develop vigorous activity in the field of non-action!

However, it is simply stupid to say: “Laziness is the engine of progress” - this is just the lazy way, choosing the most obvious, obvious and not straining brain. This is not a woman's way! The woman's way is to get to the bottom of it, talk about it thoroughly and put forward ten absolutely indisputable arguments! ;)

1. Why does a woman manage the house? A man develops it! Here are the golden words we read from the classic: “It cannot be said that women are better at doing household chores: cleaning and cooking. It’s just that men are the best at avoiding them.” Which classic? Let's not say, Google it. But the formula is simply from the category of “there is nothing to cover it with.” So, thanks to the sloth in slippers, a woman acquires a million useful skills, such as: scrubbing a frying pan with her manicured right hand, while at the same time cooking a crocodile on it in a delicate sauce, while masterfully showing her daughter the cartoon “Darling, I’ll give you a star.” No, no one is hinting at a more targeted use of the frying pan.

2. A man saves us a lot of money. Especially for repairs. How much has been saved in our country alone by the irresistible male reluctance to re-paste the wallpaper and change the windows - if you count and mentally add up all these astronomical figures... United by the entire unrepaired world, with these funds it would be possible to fly to Mars and back. However, out of gratitude, you can send there those thanks to whom all these untold riches were preserved. However, you can save money on the “back” item. We are very trainable.

3. A man covers the furniture with clothes. And this diversifies the interior design. The main thing here is not to perceive socks and ties, T-shirts and turtlenecks as something mortal and everyday. Look at them with an artist's eye. This is at least drapery. Just check out this fresh splash of blue panties on the white doorknob. Or that bold texture of a sweater on a floor lamp. In general, take a broader view: in your apartment there is a constantly changing installation, a complete sovrisk, an art object is waiting around every corner. By the way, there’s also waiting in the kitchen... Art scraps. Know how to see and observe.

4. The man leaves food in the pan. Just a little, just a drop, barely covers the bottom. Or huddles lonely in a corner. And all this abundance is solemnly placed in the middle of the refrigerator. Where have you seen unwashed dishes? This is food, product, food, resource! What exactly in the world a man improves in this way cannot be said right away. Your own figure? So it seems no, it’s imperceptible. The quality of the cookware is also not particularly improved... Oh! Microorganisms. This is who can be grateful to a human man for the opportunities provided. Guess everyone can care about cats – they’re cute. But try to take care of those who are invisible to the naked eye! That's it. And microorganisms are also needed for the harmony of nature and evolution in general. Maybe one of them will become progressive. For example, men with the ability to wash saucepans.

5. The man doesn’t take out the trash. Mmmm... So, about microorganisms, a lot has already been said. “Wife, come up with something, you’re so smart!..” Oh! We came up with it! Garbage is an excellent means of self-defense. Evil robbers are breaking in on you - and you bombard them with uncarried bags of dead herrings - they will refuse to trade in such an unsafe way. So, a man protects us without making any effort - except for efforts aimed at not hearing the gentle request: “Bucket-o!”

6. A man helps reduce the number of accidents. Because for him you have to wear red. At least on dates, so that he can distinguish you from everyone else with his gaze. Because if you wear beige or turquoise, then he won’t even be able to properly describe you in a statement to the police if he suddenly loses you. It’s somehow lazy for him to distinguish them, run these with turquoises. Well, in these scarlet sails you can be seen from afar. Drivers slow down. They seem to think that you are coming to them on a date.

7. A man expands our knowledge of entropy. How clearly did you understand what entropy is? Did you understand dissipation and the second law of thermodynamics well enough? But all knowledge is better acquired with the help of empirics and practice. Which means: observe the behavior of your darling for a week - and you can not only defend a dissertation on the habits of entropy, but also create an epic novel about it, and a ballet libretto at the same time.

8. And the man is developing the liquor industry with his fear of psychologists. And compare the cost of a course of psychotherapy and the cost of zero to five over-the-counter antidepressants! And the alcoholic beverage industry is not your enemy’s cheeses and textiles. And not charlatans with couches. This is native, close, deeply traditional. Therapy, admittedly, is not without side effects. Well, there is another light option - . Someone else makes them too, and they also don’t want to be left without work.

9. Speaking of earnings. A man provides an excellent opportunity to earn money in an activity that you can do endlessly. Namely, by writing volumes and conducting trainings on the topic “1001 ways to overcome male laziness.” Or mini-manuals like . And it’s okay that all the cherished methods, in fact, come down to the existential problem of “how to teach a horse to fly.” That’s the thing: a fundamentally unsolvable problem can be studied endlessly!

10. A lazy man inspires a woman. For everything, but mostly for searching. For example, searching for a new man, searching for a cat, searching for yourself. And she usually looks for all this after she has planted forty thousand rose bushes, achieved perfection and can already do everything - from frying a crocodile to building a two-story house...

And then she, having written a dissertation on entropy with one hand free from the frying pan, and a manual on male laziness with the other, suddenly comprehends Zen in all its depth and breadth. What is one palm clap? Yes, here he is, in fact, sitting on your sofa! And he wiggles his ears. And you simply can’t do anything with it. What can you do with the clap of one palm? Just meditate on it. Preferably from the height of some Himalayan peak. At the moment of comprehending this truth, a woman abruptly moves to the next level of development.

Thus, our research convincingly proves that a man is an evolutionary mechanism that contributes to the achievement of complete enlightenment. And whoever got it was not lazy enough - well, excuse me: probably, karma still has to be worked off!

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Text: Yulia Sheket

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We have always been taught that laziness is the absence or lack of hard work in a person who prefers free time to work. Traditionally, laziness is regarded as a vice, convincing us from childhood that a lazy person is a parasite of society. Let's take a look laziness as the engine of progress…

Laziness is a psychosomatic sign of serviceability, developed over the years of evolution, of the mechanism for intuitive recognition of the meaninglessness of the task being performed...

Need to save energy

Engine of progress

Who do you think came up with all sorts of devices that make human work easier? You know the answer...

Homo sapiens has always sought to simplify his work or the work of other people in order to obtain greater results with less effort.

Therefore, another definition of laziness is need to save energy.

Laziness- this is a person’s desire to avoid overcoming difficulties, this is a persistent reluctance to make any volitional effort.

Reasons for such laziness:

Overwork, objective organism, waste of physical, emotional and energy resources.

The discrepancy between “should” and “want” when we waste our time in life on unwanted things.

- An intuitive feeling of the uselessness of the task being performed at the moment (monkey work).

Unpreparedness to solve upcoming problems.

Lack of habit of an active and vigorous life.

A large number of tasks and lack of an implementation plan.

Desire to rest.

State of depression.

For the Weak (those who live in the past, stability and have little energy) - the unknown gives rise to Fear and the desire to destroy it. For the Strong (those who live by development and being here and now), the unknown generates Interest and a desire to act. (I. Palienko)

Laziness is a lack of motivation

As a result of the absence of direct stimuli for our actions: hunger, cold, predators, laziness appears.

In primitive society, they are the ones who force a person to move.

In modern society, an additional factor comes into force - our mind, which forces us to act in the absence of visible reasons for this.

If you hear: “I’m too lazy to do this!”— perceive: “ I don't understand why this needs to be done!»

Laziness is a safety mechanism of our body, which is based on the unshakable, use of the least energy-consuming action.

Everything that happens in the world follows the path of least resistance.

It is thanks to laziness that we do only what is necessary, without wasting ours (after all, this is all we have: biological, mental energy, money, time, ideas) on unnecessary things.

If there is a stop, death occurs, and this is not the most interesting thing that can happen to us.

That's why laziness is so strong! Skillful distribution is a matter of life and death. Let's look at how this manifests itself.

Problem situations:

1. Actions that do not lead to benefits

It's like a typical low-paying job where employees slog to work on Monday and happily fly off for the weekend on Friday.

If you find yourself in such a situation, it’s stupid to fight yourself, change the conditions.

Do you find it difficult to force yourself to go to university or to a job you don’t like? Educate yourself and create.

A profession should initially be an act of love. And not a marriage of convenience. And before it’s too late, don’t forget that the work of your whole life is not a business, but a life. (Haruki Murakami)

2. Actions that produce results in the long term

If you have a long-term goal, then try to take into account the principle of daily small actions.

A wall cannot be built in one day - you lay brick by brick as perfectly as it can be laid, every day... and nothing more...

As an example, a morning jog: you get up 20 minutes earlier than usual, walk around the house for 2 weeks, then increase the time to an hour, after another 2 weeks you start jogging for 15 minutes.

You don’t break yourself by forcing yourself to run a marathon right away.

3. Actions for the sake of action itself

This is fanatical workaholism. Pull yourself up and ask the question: “Do I want to train to train or to be strong? Do I want to work to work or to be financially free?”

Do exactly as much as is necessary to achieve your goal, the desired result, and nothing more, unless, of course, it gives you pleasure.

4. Taking action on a goal that doesn't inspire you

This is the situation you may find yourself in when you follow the lead of others.

If you're too lazy to pump up your abs, think about this: “Do I need it?”

Maybe life is truly wonderful for you with a round tummy?

But if you still need this, then refer to point No. 2.

Difficulties are necessary in spiritual life so that, overcoming them, the soul eradicates shortcomings in itself. (Sridhar Maharaj)

5. General low energy tone

The overall energy of the body rises due to mental and biological energies.

Look at what you eat and what you consume.

If you eat fast food or overeat at night, and your favorite films and songs are about endless suffering and unrequited love, then the result will be obvious.

6. Apathy

In this case, the person mopes without a purpose.

A goal is an anticipated result; moving towards it turns our life into a holiday.

Look for it only by this abstract feeling - the anticipation of joy, in childhood you already knew the answer, but forgot.

The way we were taught that in life you need to work long, tediously and hard, making your way through routine and unpleasant actions - an alien, imposed belief.

Our life easily develops in accordance with our beliefs, so allow yourself the luxury of living without fighting the world around you and without the feeling that you are acting in vain.

All people love to create, express themselves, and try for others. This is normal. Just don’t confuse it with WORK. And the fact that we are all too lazy to WORK, to obey someone else’s will, is very, very good.

Sunny energy and wonderful mood to everyone!