Today is my first time to talk with you friends in Yahoo face to face. I hope to share my successful experience with you. Although I think that most diligent and clever people of you could not benefit from it, I do believe, there must be one or two served well by the experience. These guys will follow what I’m saying without bothering to judge whether it is correct. Let’s open today’s conversation! Many people in the world who are very clever and highly educated can’t succeed. That’s because, from their childhood they have been wrongly educated, and have contracted the bad habit of being diligent. A lot of people may remember Edison’s saying, “Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.” They’re misled by this word all their lives. They strive industriously but only go through life as failures. The fact is that Edison didn’t feel like thinking about the real reason for his success, so he made up this word to mislead us.
Many people may think I am talking nonsense. Ok, let me take 100 examples to confirm your mistake! Facts speak louder than words. The world’s richest man, Bill Gates, was a programmer. He dropped out of the University because he was tired of reading. As he didn’t want to memorize the complicated orders of DOS, he compiled an interface procedure of graphs. What’s it called? I forgot. I never bother to remember such things. All the computers in this world get the same face accordingly, and he, becomes the wealthiest man on earth.
The world’s most valuable brand, Coca-cola, had a much lazier boss. Although China’s tea culture has a long history, and Brazil’s coffee smells sweet, he was just bone idle. He bottled the cold water mixed with saccharine and sold it. Then in the whole world where people exist, everyone is drinking that kind of liquid which looks like blood.
The world’s best football player, Ronaldo, never bothers to move in field. He just stands in front of the opponent’s goal. As the ball comes, he kicks. This is the most expensive athlete in the world. Someone says his dribbling speed is amazing. That’s rubbish. Other players run 90 minutes in one game while he only takes 15 seconds, surely he can run much faster.
The world’s strongest food enterprise McDonald’s owner was also unusually lazy. He was too lazy to study the delicacy of French meal and to grasp the elaborate skills of Chinese food. What he sold was just two slices of bread containing a piece of beef, while the sign of “M” finally spread all over the world. The boss of Pizza Hut, who couldn’t bother to fill up pies, scattered fillings on the leavened cake. It was called PIZZA, which is even more expensive than 10 pies.
Some other lazy men are more intelligent.
Tired of climbing the floor, they invented elevators; indisposed to go on foot, they made cars, trains and planes; bored of killing people one by one, they invented atomic bombs; unwilling to calculate every time, they invented mathematic formula; too lazy to go out for a concert, they invented discs, tapes and CDs.
Too many examples like these. I’m tired of explaining.
Besides, I'd like to mention this nonsense, “Life lies in movement.” Have you ever seen a long-live athlete? Don’t those monks live longest in the world, who even can’t be bothered to eat meat? Without these lazy men, what kind of conditions we would live in, I never bother to think!
Humans are such, so are animals. The most long-lived animal on earth is named tortoise. They rarely move in their lives, lying prone to the ground, and can live for 1,000 years. They are too lazy to walk, but who won the running race with the diligent and active hare? Cows are hard-working, yet people feed them with grass as well as taking their milk. Pandas are so silly that they do nothing but hold a piece of bamboo gnawing all the day, however, People endearingly call them “national treasure”.
Let's come back to our job. Look at the person in your company who comes earliest and goes latest every day. He’s always busy throughout the day like a spring. Doesn't he get the lowest salary? Another guy idles every day and often looks absent-minded when he’s free. Isn’t he paid most and is said to own the shares of many company!
All the examples I took above are simply to explain one question, that this world is actually supported by lazybones. They have favored the world with such splendid things. And now, you may find the main reason which caused you not to succeed!
To be lazy does not mean to become foolishly lazy. To work less, you have to find out the methods of laziness. You should form your lazy style, achieve the perfection of laziness. I have been a lazybones from my childhood, even tired of gaining flesh, and this is the perfect stage!