Books about lazy, apathetic, ignorant characters with a lot of potential?

Books about lazy, apathetic, ignorant characters with a lot of potential?

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Oblomov

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Cool I forgot about this book

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this

le catcher in the rye

Everything by Bukowski

Intelligence determines work ethic. There's no such thing as someone that is smart but lazy.

>Intelligence determines work ethic.

Citation please.

Yeah, that's transparently not true. Just saying this is almost confirmation of a low IQ.

the truth is the exact opposite tbqh. Conscientiousness determines work ethic, which has no correlation with IQ.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits#Conscientiousness

psytech.com/Content/Research/Conscientiousness-and-Intelligence-2004.pdf

"smart but lazy" is real, but anyone who thinks they deserve any sort of reverence, praise, respect or admiration for being just that should be punched in the teeth.

That book was hard to get through.

no positive correlation*

Determining someone's IQ, a measure their entire intellectual capacity, off of one statement is just as stupid as what I said

I just like baiting the >tfw 2 smart 4 work people

*watches a jordan peterson lecture once*

*discredits rigorously proven scientific research because someone popular teaches it*

fpbp

Interesting read.

I posted the bait above. Obviously smart people can be lazy.

I'm just sick of the stereotypical person that qualified as "smart" in something in their life and now lives a life of failure and laziness while mentally masturbating to their lost potential.

Probably not as sick as people are to people like you having a wank to 'work ethic', mate.

True.

You're right.

It's equally annoying, but on the other side of the spectrum. It's also threatening to other people which.

A Confederace Of Dunces

I had a friend who said it only made sense to him after the 2nf or 3rd reading.

confederancy of dunces

you skunt