Can I Get A Better Life Doing Nothing?

Fred Gratzon is a lazy guy, and not afraid of saying it quite loud. Bravo Fred, I'm with you!
He wrote The Lazy Way to Success: How to Do Nothing and Accomplish Everything, and thinks that you must love what you do to be successful. Something I also mentioned in my own book.
Hard work shouldn't exist. In fact, I think most of us are guilty of making work hard. Why do we think that to be successful we need lots of money? And to get money we need to work as slaves our entire lives?
From the comments at Fred's blog I noticed an interesting trend: we have a new way to categorize people in the world, yes, one more, those who think we should keep working hard until we are retired and then, at 65, go get some fun, beers and maybe chicks, and the few of us that prefer enjoying each day, doing what we really like and not being so worried about society, regular jobs and that awful, but still needed, thing called money.
I hope many of us will be some day like Manfred Macx, the guy from Accelerando, a novel I'm currently enjoying. Manfred doesn't need any money, in fact, he gives away ideas to make other people wealthy.
Please, let's not forget life is not about money, it's about living. You must enjoy doing what you call job, if you aren't, quit, and start doing what you really want.

Submitted by alexis on Sun, 2006-06-25 19:25.
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