innovation - laziness
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EVERYWHERE
• Laziness behind many inventions
• Laziness drives innovations that improve productivity
• It comes from saying, “There must be a better way.”
THE PROCESS OF SIMPLIFYING TAKES A LOT OF EFFORT
Laziness does not mean sitting and watching Jerry Springer and eating popcorns.
But when you develop a new innovation once, you get to leverage it over and over again. So in the long run, you are ahead.
HE SAID, “I WAS TOO LAZY TO CALCULATE AND SO I INVENTED THE COMPUTER.”
Some of the greatest innovations were developed by people who were too lazy to do a particular task
Professor John Atanasoff, along with graduate student Clifford Berry, built the world’s first electronic-digital computer back in the late 1930’s. Why did he do this?
TWISTER FORK
The design keeps the pasta from sliding right off.
ARMREST TABLE
The design keeps the pasta from sliding right off.
LAZINESS OFTEN INVOLVES THE CREATION OF SOMETHING THAT RESULTS IN EXPONENTIAL RETURNS
• So, overall laziness is a way for innovation.
• Obviously, it doesn't mean that just sitting on their asses whole day and doing nothing.
• Here, laziness means finding an innovative solution to reduce the work and it will finally create some new invention.