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Saying that a person is lazy in our ordinary lives is not a word of praise, but more of a derogatory meaning. In study and work, lazy people also seem to be more likeable than diligent people. Because in people's impression, diligent people do things more sharply, while lazy people always delay again and again, and sometimes lead to work leaks. However, there are now studies that prove that the lazier the person seems to be smarter.
This method of research seems to be the most standard answer we have ever heard. Our definition of laziness seems to be that we eat and wait to die every day, and we have no contribution to society. But such laziness is only superficial laziness, and we are mainly talking about implicit laziness today. It seems difficult to understand this, then we can also understand him as consuming less energy, but this seems to conflict with our cognition.
Because in our minds, if a person consumes less energy, then it should be a lazy person in our impression, because only lazy people have too little energy consumption. Smart people, on the other hand, have more mental activities to do and more things to think about, so they should consume more. But the opposite is true, so let's discuss why.
A study of "cognitive needs" in Mexico validated this theory. In 2016, Mexico selected 60 university students for a controlled trial, and 30 of them were usually very passionate about thinking and curious about everything around them. The remaining 30 people are not thinking, and the number of days of study is 7 days. They wore wrist-driven devices on the 60 researchers to monitor activity.
The results of the study are different from those we usually know. The results show that those who do not like to think about people exercise much more than those who love to think, which also shows that a person who thinks about problems often is even more lazy than people who do not think much about problems.
Why this result is so, the researchers have made their own explanation in a journal. Those who are smarter are more focused on mental exercise, spend most of their time thinking, and therefore have a little slack in exercise and exercise. So how do smarter brains make people lazy? We explain this problem from the perspective of physics.
Physics has a law of conservation of energy, which means that energy is not endless, and if you use too much energy in one place, then the energy used in another place must be reduced. This also explains that if our brain is working all the time, then your cells in the brain are in constant motion, and they need a lot of energy to support their movement.
People need a fixed amount of energy throughout the day, and if they consume too much energy, then their work efficiency will become extremely low, so those who are smart generally have a relatively low amount of exercise.
Because they spend all their energy thinking about problems, they also give up exercising because they think about problems, which makes them look lazy in the eyes of others. On the other hand, laziness can also be understood as the brain's self-preservation. When we spend all our energy on thinking for a day, our subconscious mind will hint to us that thinking is also a kind of movement, and there is no need for physical exercise. Therefore, as human beings develop, smart people will become lazier and lazier.
Thinking consumes more energy than we think, and if the brain is used excessively, it often consumes most of the body's energy, which can lead to a shorter lifespan for mental workers than manual workers. But the results of this study are also limited to the fact that the smarter the person, the lazier the person, and if the reverse is not applicable, we cannot say that the lazier the person will be the smarter.
From the perspective of evolutionary psychology, because of the influence of natural selection, all the actions of the brain are to protect human beings and survive longer. Coupled with the fact that the energy in the human body is a non-renewable resource, your brain will stop the body from moving again after using too much energy because of thinking.
If the body's energy is always insufficient, then the consequences will be very serious. Smart people will be lazier than ordinary people, and essentially the brain wants humans to consume a little slower energy. We can't deny that your brain wants you to live more than you do.
Because the total energy in the human body is fixed, if you are involved in both hard thinking and manual labor, your energy must be consumed faster than others. The day you run out of energy is the day your life ends. Your brain is more afraid of death than you are afraid of disappearing, so when we are hurt, we are afraid, we are afraid.
It also explains why smart people are lazy and want to live longer. Maybe they are not aware of this purpose of their own, but this is already a choice engraved in their bones, a choice that has been made since they were born with life and genes.