I think [their] laziness plays out as being stupid to the rest of us. Laziness always plays out as stupidity to onlookers, but the root cause of one's stupidity can almost always be traced back to just being lazy during the original planning phase of an op.
I used to see it all the time in the Navy with junior officers fresh from OCS or ROTC. They would show up with that "deer in the headlights" look, would quickly get overwhelmed, and wouldn't rely on their peers or senior/mid level enlisted subordinates for advice, would eventually take the "I'm the boss, we'll just do things my way" attitude, while even the lowest E-1/E-2 (who had been there just maybe 3 weeks longer than the Zero) would see where that line of logic leads. I came to realize, after reaching 2nd Class Petty Officer and having to attend those planning meetings, that it wasn't that those type of officers or senior enlisted were stupid per se, it was that they would get lazy in their thought logics, which invariably leads to laziness in performance. Which then plays out as stupidity during the op because they failed to acknowledge their weaknesses and address them. This is how most small businesses fail within the first 9-12 months of opening, too.
And, as we can see, it's also how political campaigns die.
Interesting,I have also seen lazy people who were very good workers when it came to physical jobs. They will think of the easy way to do things or most efficiently. They will do twice the work of other people while looking like they are hardly working.
I think [their] laziness plays out as being stupid to the rest of us. Laziness always plays out as stupidity to onlookers, but the root cause of one's stupidity can almost always be traced back to just being lazy during the original planning phase of an op.
I used to see it all the time in the Navy with junior officers fresh from OCS or ROTC. They would show up with that "deer in the headlights" look, would quickly get overwhelmed, and wouldn't rely on their peers or senior/mid level enlisted subordinates for advice, would eventually take the "I'm the boss, we'll just do things my way" attitude, while even the lowest E-1/E-2 (who had been there just maybe 3 weeks longer than the Zero) would see where that line of logic leads. I came to realize, after reaching 2nd Class Petty Officer and having to attend those planning meetings, that it wasn't that those type of officers or senior enlisted were stupid per se, it was that they would get lazy in their thought logics, which invariably leads to laziness in performance. Which then plays out as stupidity during the op because they failed to acknowledge their weaknesses and address them. This is how most small businesses fail within the first 9-12 months of opening, too.
And, as we can see, it's also how political campaigns die.
Interesting,I have also seen lazy people who were very good workers when it came to physical jobs. They will think of the easy way to do things or most efficiently. They will do twice the work of other people while looking like they are hardly working.