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What If You Were Never Lazy?

Lindsey Mackereth · Lindsey Mack's Complexity Edge

Oct 4, 2026 · 1 min listen · Last updated October 4, 2026

There is a word that follows a lot of us around. It shows up on report cards, in performance reviews, in the tone of a partner’s voice when the dishes are still in the sink. , looking at a list we wrote that morning with nothing crossed off.

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There is a word that follows a lot of us around. It shows up on report cards, in performance reviews, in the tone of a partner’s voice when the dishes are still in the sink. It shows up, most reliably, in our own heads at 11 p.m., looking at a list we wrote that morning with nothing crossed off.

The word is lazy.

It’s a small word, and it does a lot of work. It explains everything quickly and nothing well. It takes a gap between what you meant to do and what you actually did, and it fills that gap with a verdict about your character.

Many neurocomplex people experience something closer to a mismatch. There’s a gap between what they want to do and what their brain can reliably initiate, organize, sequence, tolerate, or sustain.

That is a different explanation entirely, and it leads to different solutions. If it’s true for you, a lot of the story you’ve been told about yourself was built on the wrong foundation.

Then there is the harder question, the one this essay is really about: what if years of being called lazy actually changed the way you experience yourself?

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