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136. Is Sloth a Sin or a Virtue?

No Stupid Questions

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The Opposite of Sloth Is Hyper Productivity

I think of Richard Thaler, the economist, the University of Chicago, our famously lazy Nobel laureate. He does talk about himself as being lazy in the first person. But his lazy is different from it's not sitting on the couch eating Cheetos, watching 12 hours of friends. I would describe it as conserving attention and energy for things that you really care about or everything else you just say no to.

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