“I believe that accepting my laziness is key to my eventual success. Trying to change that part of me seems fruitless and might just be a waste of time.”
A quick summary of this article; a lazy boy accepts he is lazy and embraces some failures and some successes or something like that. In my end of the month review for January, I noticed I made some fantastic steps in becoming a better person and an ML/Data Science Engineer and made some decisions or goals for February and I can proudly say I’m not doing well. From daily planning to money management to spiritual life efforts to my LinkedIn test and worst of all, my Coding life
Coding
It is easy to blame the fact that I didn’t fulfill my duty to this passion of mine to a bad charger 🔌. I did have a bad or pretty much nonfunctioning charger but lack of priorities made me spend money on data (a whopping 8,500 naira) over a charger (simple 5,000). I did get the necessary resources and started reading but reading isn’t it when it comes to coding more or less data science, it’s a practice-based something. Now, Linear Algebra, Probability and Statistics are important aspects to this Data Science and Machine Learning Journey which require a lot of reading and not much computer works but the fact I didn’t have a functioning laptop brought my evil brother, procrastination. And lo and behold, it’s February 29 and I’m fucking ashamed. March is here and I believe I’m going to write a beautiful piece on how well I’m doing. I think setting goals isn’t doing it for me but March should end with a GitHub and a simple data science project.
Money Issues
As a matter of fact, I’m asking a friend for 1k as I write this painful review of myself, I’m honestly disappointed in myself. If I had a little sense, I won’t use 8k (brothers and sisters, brethren and elders, 8k to buy data), at most 3 or 4k is enough and we save the rest but no, Twitter and YouTube come before sense. What a life. I won’t say more than that. Maybe, March will be better. Looking at where money runs to, data subscription and transport(necessary) it is, therefore, necessary that I go back to my beloved Glo (3k for 17gb, this is no advert, they are not paying me but don’t worry in the future we gather dey) and since no transport in school, food is the next big issue so we are reducing our food intake to 3 meals per day. In general, this month have seen my self slip when it comes to this money matters, I really can’t do this shit on my own, to be honest. Misplaced priorities mostly have been an issue. My Savings this month didn’t even grow at all. If not for the fact that I locked my savings everything would have been for the spending. Hopefully, the small playful decisions will make a difference this month of March.
Spiritual Life
I won’t lie reading my Bible has been hard to do. Like I said before I’m trying to understand God from an original perspective, not one defined by others. Though I haven’t been consistent, I find the book of Proverbs interesting so maybe we continue from there and maybe the Lord will blow the wind of my mind to another book.
LinkedIn Test
Remember the LinkedIn Test, I flunked that one. Now the approach I will have to take for this is to probably take the test, fail woefully, and let my mind play tricks(Dull Idiot, You don’t know book, ordinary programming stuff you dey fail, no wonder you dey fail MEE courses e.t.c) and see where that leads us.
Habit
Actually, songwriting and article writing has been great as fuck. Clears my mind and the reason why I still saw a little progress this month
School
I have a love-hate relationship with OAU. Funny thing is that I can’t wait to get back to school but by the time I get there, I’m going to hate myself so I don’t understand. A lot of my results came out and after some time and a little bit of persuasion I checked it, I was devastated but it made me realize that this GPA thing isn’t part of the plan I think🤣. Some bad news, my class rep suddenly drop the bomb as I was rounding up this article that our SIWES (IT) oral presentation comes up this 17th of March and we are to submit our reports and logbooks by 12th of March. Mad people everywhere sha.
Procrastination
Lazy — characterized by lack of effort or activity;unwilling to work or use energy.
Procrastination — the action of delaying or postponing something.
Procrastination isn’t far from a lazy person, most of the time the reason a lazy person even procrastinates is that there is a necessity and maybe their life will be on fire if it isn’t done. Before I go further, being lazy will get you nowhere, to be honest, but the process a lazy person does to achieve things that are important or necessary like assignments, SIWES Report, work project e.t.c is what’s exciting. Especially with the fact that I (lazy person) have surrounded myself with lazy people apart from Seun and Simi, the whole process knows me. I procrastinate with everything including with this article, I love the thrill, I love the fear I feels towards deadlines and so many more. I have always wondered why I keep doing so but two things 1) it’s addictive and 2) it always works at least 90% of the time.
Some of my best works were mostly done in a hurry, I’m talking 4 hours to deadline, big exams e.t.c. and from a point of observation, it also works for some people. As I wondered, I stumbled upon this TED talk by Adam Grant titled The surprising habits of original thinkers (https://go.ted.com/Cy8e) and it definitely settled some nerves which always misbehave when my brains start to think if I will ever make it. Procrastination comes to original thinkers sort of as default (I’m not saying all procrastinator are original thinkers or I’m an original thinker) but the reason why it works is that as long as the task or job to be done is told to them, they usually didn’t rush into the task but most times, they allow the task to be active in the back of their mind, that it starts to incubate. Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas to think in nonlinear ways (no wonder Jacob doesn’t think straight), to make unexpected leaps. School doesn’t give room for procrastination, as a matter of fact, she preaches against this so no wonder my A courses happened due to the fact that I rushed into reading everything blindly leaving no room for trying new things and at the end of the semester I didn’t feel good about myself and eventually went back to lazy me and got the Cs and Ds and I felt fucking happy(Something is wrong somewhere). According to Aaron Sorkin, it is not procrastination, it’s thinking more or less subconscious thinking (my words). Leonardo da Vinci toiled on and off for 16 years on the Mona Lisa. He felt like a failure (for a simple painting, most people during the 16 years period would have also called him a failure especially in this fast-paced world like ours where someone’s mate or junior is already making 16million dollars in a year or has even become a billionaire, it is easy to feel down).
Procrastination is a vice when it comes to productivity but it can be a virtue for creativity — Adam Grant
It’s much easier to improve on somebody else’s idea than it is to create something new, and that’s what lazy people do. Mark, Sergey, and Page didn’t make something new, they improved on existing systems. To be original you don’t have to be first (which is what school pretty much bases it’s credit or success systems on) but rather you have to be different and better and diverse and far-reaching which usually takes time and usually a lazy or procrastinating man has that time to himself.
There are many other things in Adam Grant’s TED Talk so check it out but my focus is on proving to myself why lazy is good for me😀😀😀
For those that love to be lazy with me, you have to be told the task before you go into indulging in your lazy time-wasting things before procrastinating will work so that you can have the task at the back of your mind and your brain can do some subconscious thinking (try this and you will be surprised 😲)
Now, most of these might be rubbish but I guess it’s the rubbish I’m willing to bet on.
Playlist of the Month
- Lauv — Changes
- Tones and I — Dance Monkey
- Billie Eilish — No Time to Die
- Dua Lipa — Don’t Start Now
- 5SOS — Old Me
- Post Malone — Go Flex
- Now United — Live this Moment
- Trevor Daniel — Falling
- Oh Wonder — Happy
- JP Saxe — If the World was ending (feat. Julia Micheals)
- Tones and I — Johnny Run Away (🔥 🔥)
- Ed Sheeran — Perfect Duet(/) feat. Beyoncé
“Changes
They might drive you half insane but
It’s killing you to stay the same but
It’s all gonna work out
It’s all gonna work out someday” - Lauv
A little thanks to Dad
He is the second friend I have after my mum😜. He believed and still does believes in my very ambitious dreams (I mean everything). He is the reason I think unrealistically(or push for unrealistic dreams or things) and one thing I have found out is that in the pursuit of these things or dreams I have become a better person (It’s the whole process that matters). I thank you for the support and for the unexpected funds. Thanks.
Quick one
It’s official I can drive at Gear 3 but Gear 4 & 5 seems to be a problem. Ooin, I’m doing well
January was a 75% month but this February, I would love to say was better but unfortunately, it has a lower score of <30%.
A moment of self-reflection is important and this is what the article is all about.
So I guess I’m taking a lazy approach to March, let’s see where that takes us.
Which is better, Food without salt or Food with too much salt?
Anyway sha, Femi is speaking in the rubbish, Femi is speaking in the nonsense, Femi is speaking in the thing that doesn’t have sense
It’s Akinlua, Olorunfemi Praise. Your Egyptian Baby.
Mechanical and ML and Data Science Engineer in training.
Wide believer of everything life.
Thanks.
