is laziness inherited?

[Findingnemo]

I don't think so because it's not a condition just a habit which we form mostly due to our life style. Like if you are living comfortable, got a normal job and doesn't look for anything more along with that your surrounding is kind of encouraging that average life then it's more likely you will turn out to be lazy overtime. If you are living uncertain life, doesn't know what happens next then it's not possible to be lazy at that situation.

[Cryptsafe]

I don't think so because it's not a condition just a habit which we form mostly due to our life style. Like if you are living comfortable, got a normal job and doesn't look for anything more along with that your surrounding is kind of encouraging that average life then it's more likely you will turn out to be lazy overtime. If you are living uncertain life, doesn't know what happens next then it's not possible to be lazy at that situation.

Laziness is not a condition as you have said, it is an attitude formed over time as a result of our environment or comfort we have long adopted as a lifestyle. I have known people who are very comfortable with their lifestyle and when I ask them, they tell me that they earn good pay, have good houses, and can afford to live a good life why would they start jumping about to make money when they are comfortable with the one they have. These sets of individuals are likely to be comfortable with their comfort zone and would always display some kind of lazy attitude outwardly without minding it.

[MUGNIA]

Laziness is not a hereditary factor, but rather a personal habit of each individual. Usually, lazy people are people who do not have the enthusiasm to live a better life. They can only dream of being rich without any effort. In my opinion, lazy people are usually synonymous with failure.

[PX-Z]

Idk but i said no, it's the environment the child/adult grows up. Especially for a child where s/he saw such behaviour then copy it until the child used to it and that's it becomes until something happened that could lead a major changes to the child's behaviour.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

like the title says, do you believe that laziness is inherited? or at least that something we get from our parents? maybe it’s how we saw them growing up? or the principles and beliefs they instilled on us allowed us to grow too comfortable and therefore lazy? is it the result of the kind of environment you grew up on? where do people get their laziness from? and how can one overcome such thing?

Genetically, I don’t think there’s any possibility of actually inheriting laziness, but you make a good point about how people often end up inheriting laziness or other forms of social behaviours from their parents or immediate families. When a child is growing up and is in a learning stage, he tends to acquire and absorb all the available information at his disposal, so whatever idea you pass to that young mind is what he accepts and grows up with. If you make them feel too comfortable without teaching them that at some point they’ll also need to work for themselves, then they could end up growing up having that perspective of life that whatever they need could be given to them in a platter and that’s how laziness is learned by a child and if he continues in that path without unlearning it, they’ll grow up to be extremely lazy.

[libert19]

Laziness is not a hereditary factor, but rather a personal habit of each individual. Usually, lazy people are people who do not have the enthusiasm to live a better life.

Possibly because they are content where they are?

 

[Agbe]

Laziness is not a hereditary factor, but rather a personal habit of each individual. Usually, lazy people are people who do not have the enthusiasm to live a better life.

Possibly because they are content where they are?

Comfortability is one thing that we should avoid in life especially when we are not established in life because it's a hindrance to progress because when ever you get comfortable in the place where you find yourself and is not doing anything else to change your position overtime you will find out that you are not where you supposed to be in your growth process

[robelneo]

like the title says, do you believe that laziness is inherited? or at least that something we get from our parents? maybe it’s how we saw them growing up? or the principles and beliefs they instilled on us allowed us to grow too comfortable and therefore lazy? is it the result of the kind of environment you grew up on? where do people get their laziness from? and how can one overcome such thing?

For me, its more on the environment a person grew up with, nobody is born lazy; its their environment and the people that set the example of how and what living is, A child can only imitate how their relatives lives and incorporate more of their traits If the parents lacks the drive and are lazy then the child will see to it as the right way to live and will do the same.

[Wiwo]

like the title says, do you believe that laziness is inherited? or at least that something we get from our parents? maybe it’s how we saw them growing up? or the principles and beliefs they instilled on us allowed us to grow too comfortable and therefore lazy? is it the result of the kind of environment you grew up on? where do people get their laziness from? and how can one overcome such thing?

Yes and NO. The reason why I said Yes is because laziness can be inherited but when the person is growing up, that laziness can be taken from him by keeping him busy and in the long run, the person will be use to agility. Why I said NO, is because there are some character we human posses ourselves. If it's making money, that's by chance.

Children tend to follow their parent's footsteps and whatever a child sees their parents doing, the same thing they will like to do also, so a father can pass lazy habits to the kids, just like ungratefulness if you see a family where either the father or mother is ungrateful and doesn't appreciate things, you will see their kids growing up with such mentality also.

You see that when they receive things from others they won't know how to appreciate the gift despite that it is just a kind gesture to them, there are not thought values and the right way of perceiving things.

[albon]

It is wrong to say that laziness is inherited but it is inherited from your family members. Because if your family members do not introduce you to any activity for a worker place since childhood then you will get a gift of idleness. A rich family sons and daughters suffer from a lot of laziness because they always lead a happy life and the main reason is that they have a lot of money. On the other hand, the children of a family work hard from an early age to earn money, so laziness cannot catch them.

[Z-tight]

That's true, but I think the point is how did person come to be lazy and that often boils down to surroundings one grew up in.

Even if you grew up in an environment where the adults lazy around doing nothing, i don't think it is an excuse to follow in their footsteps. It may be harder for such a person, but if they are very determined, they would be hardworking and achieve all the success they deserve.

[SamReomo]

like the title says, do you believe that laziness is inherited?

No, laziness isn't inherited, it happens because of environment and it has nothing to do with the genes. I personally know many people whose parents are quite hard working and even in their 60's they are still hard working but their kids are so much lazy and they don't work at all.

I believe the ones who get everything without effort tends to get lazier overtime but even those people can get working again if they introspect themselves. However, it's going to be tough to reform ones habits.

[libert19]

That's true, but I think the point is how did person come to be lazy and that often boils down to surroundings one grew up in.

Even if you grew up in an environment where the adults lazy around doing nothing, i don't think it is an excuse to follow in their footsteps. It may be harder for such a person, but if they are very determined, they would be hardworking and achieve all the success they deserve.

Yes, it's not an excuse but understanding helps to know why people are as they are.

Early on child learns behaviors from surroundings without using reasoning (whether some behavior is right or not), and once he becomes an adult and learns that laziness is not normal and not right for growth, the fight starts to get above it but it's hard to rewire brain from conditioned behaviors, sure not impossible but hard, so some just give up this fighting.

[milewilda]

like the title says, do you believe that laziness is inherited?

No, laziness isn't inherited, it happens because of environment and it has nothing to do with the genes. I personally know many people whose parents are quite hard working and even in their 60's they are still hard working but their kids are so much lazy and they don't work at all.

I believe the ones who get everything without effort tends to get lazier overtime but even those people can get working again if they introspect themselves. However, it's going to be tough to reform ones habits.

Environment and indeed into the people around you will really be the main determining factor on why someone do become lazy. Even though lets say that it doesnt work on certain individuals but mostly you would really be ending up on the same when you are really that having that kind of environment. We do know that laziness cant be passed through genes and this is something that will really be that speaking about into the influence of people who are really that around you. Somewhat if you are really that wanting to have a progressive life or having that kind of changes then you will be needing up to act and not really just that lying down and doing nothing. It will really be that up to you on how you would really be making out such act but if you are just that contented on what you do have now then its up to you.

[bisdak40]

Idk but i said no, it's the environment the child/adult grows up. Especially for a child where s/he saw such behaviour then copy it until the child used to it and that's it becomes until something happened that could lead a major changes to the child's behaviour.

Yeah, kids mostly learn from what they see around them. If they grow up seeing certain habits, they pick them up without even thinking. It just becomes part of who they are. But sometimes, something big happens that makes them change how they act.