three types of people who tend to get pigeonholed as “lazy” in our society: depressed people, procrastinators, and apathetic people who don’t see the point in caring about work or school. Managers and professors look down on folks like these. Friends and family find their inaction confounding. Society as a whole tends to resent them for not “contributing” enough to the world. But in these three groups of people, you can find clear illustrations of exactly why a lack of motivation isn’t a personal failing or the awful, morally negligent act the Laziness Lie wants us to believe that it is.
