All through my formative years my father and other authority figures railed quite mercilessly against what they called being lazy. According to them, laziness was about as close to the unpardonable sin as a human could possibly get without being burned by hell’s blaze. The lesson for me was, "With all thy getting, get as far away from laziness as possible."

These authority figures backed up their opinions about laziness with a fervor of work bordering on the frenzy. Just suggest that perhaps they were leaning towards, just a little bit lazy, and boy, would they explode in a ferocity of work leaving everybody in their smoke. They will even work on their day off.