Full-blown idle

Relax and enjoy Lazy Day

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IT'S National Lazy Day today, so let's give a shout out to the most laid-back folk in society. In fact, there are some scientifically-proven benefits to loafing about. Without

leaving the comfort of his well-worn couch, our idleness expert TOM STICHBURY rediscovers the lost art of laziness - and hopefully, you can be bothered to read it...

Survival of the sluggish: It's possible lazy people could actually live longer. In a 2018 study, boffin Bruce Liberman - a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology - gave, erm, paws for thought when he argued that "lassitudinous" animals like sloths had an advantage, saying "the lower the metabolic rate, the more likely the species you belong to will survive." Does that mean I can stop doing burpees at the gym? Snooze, you don't lose: American engineer Frank B Gilbreth Snr once proclaimed: "I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it." If we consider necessity to be the mother of invention, then perhaps laziness is the daddy. It'd explain corner-cutting devices like remote controls.