Creativity
30 ‘Lazy People’ Who Found Genius Ways To Do Difficult Job
It’s sad to see how these creative people are often underappreciated.
Once upon a time, Bill Gates claim that hiring lazy people are good because they find a smart way to finish things quickly. And there’s a truth in it, just like how we’re always finding ways to do things more conveniently. Really, who loves working on data input that can take up to 3 days to finish?
So, Reddit users share their own real-life examples of what Bill Gates meant. Lo and behold, these ‘lazy people’ surprise us with their most ingenious ways of doing things!

Mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.

A quick tutor.


Deserves a better reward.

Refiling milk cooler.

Giving his future self less work.

Let the machine work.

How being lazy can really make you creative.

The closest and easiest path.

Ruined apple picking.

Asking Alexa’s help.

Gotta start my own business.

How she became an engineer.

Nice and steady.

A smart musician.

These people really don’t know the power of automation.

Why aren’t you using all Excel functions?

Excel at it again.

See? There’s always an easy way out!

On reducing paperwork.


Helping a complete idiot.

He milked the company.

Well, your loss.

Use your brain, not muscles.

Boss worked smart.


As a kid.

Organizing a template.

Make use of all freely available resources, people.

Outsourcing.

For coffee.

Google is powerful.

