Laziness Doesn’t Stop You From Exercising. These 6 Reasons Do
The top reasons why you give up exercise time after time.
Most people blame laziness for their lack of workout routine. No matter how many resolutions they make they end up breaking it in the first month itself.
But laziness doesn’t exist. A social psychologist Devon Price annihilated laziness in this 11-minute article, which he later wrote a book about as well.
According to Price,
For decades, psychological research has been able to explain procrastination as a functioning problem, not a consequence of laziness. When a person fails to begin a project that they care about, it’s typically due to either a) anxiety about their attempts not being “good enough” or b) confusion about what the first steps of the task are. Not laziness. In fact, procrastination is more likely when the task is meaningful and the individual cares about doing it well.
Hence Laziness doesn’t exist.
So, why is everyone deadset on blaming laziness for missing their workouts. Turns out Redditors realized the myth of laziness before any of us, as only 1.2% of Redditors blame laziness for not working out.
I read 978 comments which led to these top six reasons why Redditors stopped…
