The Power of Laziness: Discovering the Wisdom of Laziness

By Thejendra Sreenivas

Revised 2022 Edition

Any modern executive coach can teach you how to fire on all cylinders, be more productive, extract more juice out of your system, wake up at 5 and go to bed at 11, don’t be a clock watcher, stop the 9-to-5 mentality, get into a 12-14 hour schedule, take a cold shower, and burn yourself at the gym daily, etc. They insist that fame and fortune are possible only if you adopt such an intense lifestyle. And media also joins the bandwagon to portray such ever-smiling workaholics as modern-day superheroes. Bombarded by such scorching advice most people start believing that burning themselves out is the only way to live. So, they enter a world obsessed with speed, doing everything faster, cramming more and more into less and less time, racing against the clock, etc.

But what is popular may not be right, and what is right may not be popular. Now, what if I told you that by adopting some conscious laziness you can achieve more than what chronic workaholics can achieve in their lifetime? This concise book will show you how to exploit the unique power of laziness and adapt it to achieve stunningly more productivity and creativity than all the extreme workaholics surrounding you. Give it a try, you will be pleasantly surprised.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thejendra Sreenivas
• Release date: Jan 2, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463069929

Thejendra Sreenivas

Thejendra Sreenivas is a Technology manager with nearly 28+ years of experience in the IT industry handling a variety of technical roles & projects. He is also an Author and Life Skills coach. He offers personalized coaching in Self-Publishing, Financial Literacy, IT Asset Management, and various Self-Improvement concepts. He has also written 20+ mild & wild books on a number of subjects. His inspiration for writing unique books comes from Toni Morrison who said, “If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”Please visit his web cave - www.thejendra.com for details of his books, articles and coaching information.

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Acknowledgments

My first thanks go to Toni Morrison, a famous American author, and recipient of countless awards including the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, who first planted the incredible seeds of writing a book in my head. Even though I have never met her it was her amazing quote, "If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it," that inspired and motivated me to write articles and books nearly two decades ago.

My second thanks go to my family members, friends, neighbors, and relatives for helping me accomplish this literary feat by completely forgetting or ignoring me on countless weekends while I was pounding on my keyboard with wild ideas setting my head on fire.

My third thanks go to the various bits and pieces of enlightenment gained from dealing with countless people over the years, opening all the mental taps, personal and witnessed experiences, pleasant and nasty encounters, rational and irrational thoughts in solitude, wake-up calls, famous quotes, and most importantly those bizarre ideas being mysteriously pumped into my brain by a naughty higher power. So, a lot of earthly and cosmic folks have directly or indirectly contributed to the flow of thoughts presented in this and all my other books.

Thejendra Sreenivas

Book Publishing Coach

www.thejendra.com

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About the Author

Good day. My name is Thejendra Sreenivas. I was a Technology Manager in the IT industry for nearly 30 years. Before entering the IT industry, I was also an electronics lecturer for a short duration.

I have written and self-published 35+ books on various subjects. All my books are available in both Paperback and eBook on all global book retailers. I am also the Editor and Publisher of a font-optimized digital magazine called Self Improvement International which contains articles on personal development, workplace issues, humor, writing, and publishing.

I am now a Book Publishing Coach and offer services like Assisted Self-Publishing, Manuscript Formatting, Facebook Ads, Ghostwriting, One Page Websites, Article Writing, and Podcast Creation. In addition, I also offer Personal Development Coaching.

Please visit my web cave - www.thejendra.com or www.author-world.com for details of my books, magazine, and coaching information.

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Review Request

Thank you for buying and reading my book! If you enjoyed this book or found it useful, I would be very grateful if you would post a short review online and also share it with your friends, coworkers, relatives, and your social media platforms.

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About the Series

The Executive Personal Development Series is a set of short non-fiction books on business management, leadership, inspirational, motivational, and self-improvement topics. Each book is an imaginary discussion between a retired professor who thinks unconventionally and a corporate executive who thinks like the crowd. This is a unique professor who thinks, "What is popular may not be right, and what is right may not be popular."

Most self-help books are normally written in a textbook or step-by-step guide formats. But these books are written like a novel in a conversational style with interactive lectures, candid arguments, and idle talk between the two who belong to different generations. Each book discusses some self-improvement concept or an aspect of the executive’s personal or professional life and the professor enlightens, alters, or completely demolishes the executive’s earlier thinking and assumptions.

The first book in the series is The Power of Laziness followed by The Extreme Minimalist and others. However, each book can be read independently.

Preface

Any modern executive coach can teach you how to fire on all cylinders, be more productive, extract more juice out of your system, wake up at 5 and go to bed at 11, don’t be a clock watcher, stop the 9-to-5 mentality, get into a 12-14 hour schedule, take a cold shower, and burn yourself at the gym daily, etc. They insist that fame and fortune are possible only if you adopt such an intense lifestyle. And the clueless media joins the bandwagon to portray such workaholics as modern-day superheroes. Bombarded by such scorching advice most people start believing that burning themselves out is the only way to live. So, they enter a world obsessed with speed, doing everything faster, cramming more and more into less and less time, racing against the clock, etc.

But have you met any coach who teaches how to take it easy, slow down, waste time, adopt conscious laziness, and still achieve all that you wanted to achieve?

Never.

How about meeting one such coach who can teach you the fine art of laziness?

Teach me laziness? I think that’s a stupid idea.

Why don’t you meet him and then decide?

Sorry, I am not interested in becoming lazy.

Come on! Give it a try once.

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The Walk in the Park

Who is this coach that you are pestering me to meet?

He is a retired professor and an author of several excellent textbooks, countless scholarly papers, and also holds several patents.

Why should I meet him?

He is an amazing person and now happily shares his immense knowledge and wisdom with anyone willing to listen to him. He can teach you some excellent hobbies that you urgently need.

What hobbies do I urgently need?

Laziness and slowing down.

What? Why do I need them? I don’t have time for such nonsense. Besides, how can a professor with such amazing accomplishments teach something as stupid as laziness?

That’s his expertise.

Expertise in laziness? What kind of ridiculous expertise is that?

"A unique kind of expertise. He is now the personal coach