Laziness Does Not Exist

Laziness Does Not Exist

2021 • 256 pages

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15

This book didn't land for me, alas, it didn't give me what I wanted.

What I wanted: A social history of “laziness” - where it comes from (Puritans? Calvinists?), maybe the underlying social and economic forces of why it came up and why it has persisted, and alternative philosophies of living.

What I got instead: A narrow-viewed self-help book about how to avoid burnout, written from a very specific perspective (American, modern, ableist (according to another v interesting review) etc), that sometimes overstated its thesis and called everything and anything bad the “laziness lie”.

April 19, 2024