This is a bad argument. This post is from my experience out in the real world. It is impossible to ask that someone knows 100% of a certain kind of people. Just like in science you cannot test 100% of possible situations or outcomes. That is just unattainable.

> Have you ever used a phone in your life?

First of all the phone is a device of efficiency not laziness, it was invented at a time when there was a need for instant communication, not for laziness in not writing letters. It took a huge amount of work and mistakes to make the phone in the first place, by a guy who worked hard. It then took billions of invested dollars and uncountable invested man hours to bring the phone to where it is today. This is NOT an invention of laziness.

> Is that correct? Is every lazy person forgotten? Nikola Tesla was thought by many people to be lazy because of some of the inventions that he had imagined and never actually made.

I’m wondering if you actually did any research on this fellow. First of all he worked very hard in a number of different jobs. He was an engineer. He fought through many illnesses. He worked on a number of different projects. It seems to me like you are filtering through that which he did not do rather than what he did do. Just because he is remembered as lazy does not mean he was, that is just popular opinion with no relation to fact.

> What about Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, the guy who discovered the Benzene molecule while he was dreaming. Was he “practicing” or was he in a state of daydreaming?

You have warped my argument so much here it is unrecognizable. Friedrich was again an exceptionally hard working, dedicated person. People often have inspiration while dreaming, dreaming does not equal laziness.

> What about Einstein and his theory of relativity?

Again a warped argument. It was not my argument that you cannot be in a state of relaxation/meditation and be able to come up with something good. It was my argument that if you use relaxation/meditation to AVOID doing any hard work then you’re not going to achieve anything. Fact is you need to relax sometimes, and yes sometimes you will be inspired during those moments of downtime. Fact is you’re missing out a lifetime of hard work that surrounded the relaxation that Einstein was in.

Really? So you know/knew every lazy person in the world?

Have you ever used a phone in your life? I would imagine that someone at some point in their life thought “man, this writing letters to people takes way to long…” and went on to invent other ways of communication. Maybe they were lazy.

>>>Lazy people die and are forgotten.

Is that correct? Is every lazy person forgotten? Nikola Tesla was thought by many people to be lazy because of some of the inventions that he had imagined and never actually made. If it wasn’t for him you would not be reading this. Are you also saying that people who are not lazy live forever — is that why they are not forgotten – they are around forever so we don’t forget about them?

>>>High performance comes from practice and dedication, not relaxation. Ask any >>>athelete, any scientist, for that matter anyone who has ever been good at >>>anything. Did these people become good because they lounged around and >>>relaxed, or because they had “magical” neural connections installed in their >>>brains…… please.

What about Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, the guy who discovered the Benzene molecule while he was dreaming. Was he “practicing” or was he in a state of daydreaming?

What about Einstein and his theory of relativity? Do you know how he discovered the theory of relativity? He was IMAGINING how it would be to ride on a beam of light…he was in a highly relaxed/meditative state.