just wondering
2006-07-27 13:48:02 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
wow great answers until now.. well let's just say that I wouls be qualified as a smart and lazy person, always has been and I know I'm wasting potential...
2006-07-27 14:11:24 · update #1
You consider yourself to be smart and lazy? Ok, then answer this....what is a wouls? Also, you state "always has been". I believe in grade school I learned that should be stated as "always have been."
Now, onto your question. To call someone dumb and hardworking is wrong. Chances are if you are diligent (I know you consider yourself smart but just in case...diligent means hard working) then you are not dumb. On the other hand I find assiduous (yet another word for hard working...enjoying the lesson?) people to be highly intelligent One may lack the knowledge that another has obtained but that does not make them dumb.
2006-08-03 16:39:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A lazy smart person is such a waste. I know several of those and it saddens my heart. Smart people don't even have to work hard. They can work smart and do well.
I have a friend that not get a diploma or GED. He is very handy though. His spelling and grammer is not the best, but he brings home $4000 to $5000 dollars PER WEEK. He details cars, cleans restaurants, and does all kinds of maintenance work.
His favorite thing to say is ....I may be a dumba$$ but I am a money making son of a gun!
I know people with degrees that don't make money like that!
2006-08-02 22:37:26 · answer #2 · answered by pretty_brown_eyes 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is far better to be dumb and hard working. Being a hard worker is often all a person needs to be highly successful. People who are smart and lazy are wasting their talents because their laziness keeps them from achieving through, and reaping the most reward from their intelligence. My father was barely able to graduate from high school and because of his grades could not get into college. But, he has always been an extremely hard worker. He has built a multi million dollar business and has been much more successful than his high school class valedictorian. If you read Thomas Edison's biography it tells you,Edison was not really a genius, he just worked really really hard at the things that he was interested in.
2006-07-27 21:07:48 · answer #3 · answered by chris b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Initially, the smart person is better off, but he will become less smart with time if he lets his mind slack off because of laziness. The dumb person, meanwhile, will improve his mind because of his work ethic and become smart. So in the long run, the person with the greatest effort is better off. Still, there's always the chance that the smart person will notice himself slipping and change his motivation, or that the dumb person will be disappointed at first by his difficulties and settle back into blissful ignorance.
2006-07-27 21:01:47 · answer #4 · answered by Clueless 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The dumb guy who graduates college might have a better shot at it if the smart one is lazy and do nothing but sleep in his/her mother's house then the dumb guy wins. Hope the dumb one has common senses.
2006-07-27 20:59:38 · answer #5 · answered by Kohn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Smart and lazy. If you are smart you can make your fortune fast then retire and be "lazy". If you are dumb and hard-working you could work yourself to death and still never get ahead.
A happy medium of smart and hard-working suffices to help the majority of successful people get ahead.
2006-07-27 20:54:33 · answer #6 · answered by LL 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
smart and lazy. atleast you can be a manager or something and not have to work to hard for a living.when your dumb and hard working,yeah you work hard,but youre just working hard on something that's totally wrong,which means a smart and lazy person has to come and correct you,then fire you!!!!
2006-08-02 20:53:14 · answer #7 · answered by MM 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't mind being dumb & hard working.i can become smart if i work for it. & i will be successful because i am a hard worker.based on this the hare & the torroise story was created.,being smart will not help if u r lazy.
2006-08-04 03:21:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A trick question. If work isn't out of love, then is it lazy, smart, dumb or hard....probably hard.
2006-07-27 22:20:04 · answer #9 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Smart knows they're lazy. Dumb doesn't know how hard they're working. I would rather be Dumb.
2006-08-04 16:18:43 · answer #10 · answered by old&wiser 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋