Production vs Consumption, Being Lazy, "Learning On The Job"

I've always considered myself a fairly lazy person. But I've recently realised that my laziness depends on the style of tasks.

I can sit around and consume information for hours. Days. I have a huge appetite for consumption. Of any nature. I'm indiscriminate when it comes to technical or casual information. But when it comes to production, I'm extremely lazy. I procrastinate. I find other things to do. What's with that?

I've thought about the people I most respect in my life recently, as well as the people I least respect in my life. I'll probably have to say - the people I least respect are the procrastinators. The people have a lot of potential, but never realise it. I might be one of those people. It depends what your expectation of yourself is, I guess.

I also realised another thing: why I may be so aligned to an ability to consume instead of produce. Throughout my life at school, we have a tendency to be taught theory rather than doing practicals. This lends itself to the learning the capacity to consume information, without learning the ability to produce. There is another skill we can learn: the skill of doing, and learning while we do. learning on the job. This helps as we can achieve two things at once: we can achieve a learning experience whilst still producing or going through the act of producing something.