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Letter: Even slackers can get motivated

Published 16 June 2021

From Susannah Matthews, London, UK

The author of your piece on motivation has succumbed to hyperactivist propaganda and so gets the analysis (can’t-be-)arse(d)-about-face (29 May, p 41).

As an unashamed slacker, there is nothing I like doing more than nothing. I am motivated and conscientious in my efforts to minimise the time wasted doing stuff. Writing to you on this important subject just makes the cut.

Issue no. 3339 published 19 June 2021

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