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Posted on Feb 02, 2004, 6 a.m.
By Bill Freeman
You know the type: Bright kids who barely get by in school. Coworkers with a habit of missing deadlines. Friends who never get around to doing what they say they want to do. Lazy, you say. Dr. Mel Levine prefers another term. "They are not lazy; they have output failure," Levine writes in The Myth of Laziness, now in paperback.
You know the type: Bright kids who barely get by in school. Coworkers with a habit of missing deadlines. Friends who never get around to doing what they say they want to do. Lazy, you say. Dr. Mel Levine prefers another term. "They are not lazy; they have output failure," Levine writes in The Myth of Laziness, now in paperback. Levine makes the case that "laziness is not an innate trait. We all are born with a drive to produce." But some have neurodevelopmental problems that can interfere. "Often they face accusations of laziness.
Source: http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/living/health/7688052.htm
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