From Joseph Epstein's Essay: Work and its Contents

I Dislike Most People

You Snooze, You Win: A short-short story

Hearing: a fictional short-short story

Sand Valley: A fictional short-short story

A Word With Marty: "LAZY"

A Word With Marty: "INDUSTRIOUS"

Chill Coaching: A fictional short-short story

The Laziest Person. Episode 4 of AT WORK: a series of fictional short-sh...

Staying Late: a short-short story

A Slug Goes to Confession

"I'm Lazy" -- a Q&A

The Case for Laziness

Yesterday, my post was How to Become More Productive. As a counterpoint, my Psychology Today article today makes the case for laziness, although I do ask a few doubting-Thomas questions.

Succeeding While Lazy It’s possible . . . if you carefully curate your choices.

Sometimes, choosing just a simple, pleasant approach to a task is enough for you to be successful. My Psychology Today article today offers examples.

Laziness: Its genesis, development, and amelioration

In my Psychology Today article today, I describe a pattern I commonly see among my clients. How they became lazy and what they've done to improve.

The Case for Opting Out: Maybe some people shouldn't grow up?

I’ve previously written The Peter Pan Syndrome:  why some people just won’t grow up. In essence, it was The Parent Lecture: an attempt to guilt-trip kick-back partiers into becoming responsible, self-supporting human beings. Although it was a mere blog post on Psychology Today, it has received 238,650 views.

I’m not sure it’s defensible but because, contrary to today’s zeitgeist, there often are lessons to be learned from across the spectrum, my PsychologyToday.com article today offers my best shot in defense of the Peter Pan Syndrome.

The Lazy, Yes Lazy, Job Seeker

It's unacceptable today to call someone "lazy," but rather than the usual psychologist-ginned-up "explanations" such as fear of failure, fear of rejection, etc., after 5,300 clients, I have come to believe that some people are, indeed, lazy. How to move forward from there? That's my PsychologyToday.com article today.

Managing Your Perfectionism or Lack Thereof

Many people are excessively perfectionistic. Perhaps an even larger number aren't perfectionistic enough. In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I try to help both groups.

The Procrastinator: A Short-Short Story

I've worried that a number of my how-to articles have been pontificating and/or boring. 

In an attempt at remedy, on PsychologyToday.com, I've lately written a number of short-short stories embedding how-to messages. Today's addresses procrastination.

Addressing Refuse-to-Work Syndrome

I have had many clients who work themselves to exhaustion, often to physical sickness, even a heart attack, to support his/her family, and begs the spouse to earn more than a pittance to contribute to the family income. Yet that spouse, who claims to love the person, refuses. 

I term such people as having Refuse-to-Work Syndrome. I address the issue in my PsychologyToday.com article today.