Kevin and the Giant Peach

…said this, “the best engineers are the lazy engineers. They figure out how to get things done the quickest, easiest way possible.”

Out of the 4 years of college, that is what stuck with me. (The other was Dr. Ginn talking about sitting in a sauna, contemplating the steam.)

I still believe that is great advice. However, applying it in a corporate setting is a challenge. Most bosses don’t understand “laziness” as a valid method of doing your job. They want to see you running around, moving your hands and always in a hurry.

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Sitting there staring out the window or the computer screen, nursing a cup of coffee, with your feet up on the desk isn’t quite what they want to see you doing when they walk by your office. They don’t understand that this is your best contemplative pose from which your greatest innovation is going to spring.

This is why, I believe, most great ideas don’t come from within the walls of Corporate America. Instead, they come from between the ears of people who are being “lazy” – sitting on the beach; kicked back in an easy chair; out on an easy jog (ok, that’s not really being lazy); knocking down a cold one with friends.

This is also why, I believe, that Corporate America is in its’ death throws. We’re far into the era of what Timothy Ferriss call the “new-rich” with more individuals realizing that they need to move into the “B” and “I” quadrant of Robert Kiyosaki’s “Cash Flow Quadrant.”

There definitely has never been a better or more exciting time to be lazy.

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Tags: Cash Flow Quadrant, Corporate America, Robert Kiyosaki, Timothy Ferriss

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