I don't -like- it, per se, but I guess I don't mind it. Although I started to interchange the word "efficient" when I describe myself as "lazy" thanks to a conversation I had with Bamboo a while back. I called myself lazy and he called himself efficient. And I thought that was the most brilliant reclassification ever.
Haha I was going to reply to this thread anyway, but in light of this, some elaboration:
To start, I don't like being called lazy, true or untrue, if it has a negative connotation. I don't like being talked down on. If it's friendly or in jest, than no issue.
That said, I...
Make an evaluation as to if the classification is well founded.
If I am, in fact, simply avoiding clear cut work because I just don't feel like doing it and for no other reasons, than I am lazy. This is problematic if it gets in the way of my goals.
If I'm being called lazy because I'm not demonstrating immediate 'movement', but I'm instead gathering relevant information/gathering supplies/energy, than I think the claim is unfounded. Running around just to look like you're doing something is stupid. Just hitting "GO" without really knowing what you are trying to do or how to do it is wasteful.
Haste makes waste.
In this situation, I find a way to ignore the person and move on. Sometimes I just have to suck it up and put on the horse and pony show (which wastes energy which I might otherwise use productively) to get the person off my back so I can go back to the info/supplies/energy gathering phase as appropriate.
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The rebuttal to this is that sometimes you just need to get things going to really figure out (or get some idea of) what you are doing. We're humans, not robots, we are wasteful in this way. I don't always know what I want or how to get it. So I go out and make stuff up until it makes sense.
So I try not to be lazy. I try to be efficient. It's the way to be.