Eoin O’Malley: Denis O’Brien is right to call out culture of laziness – we’re only making the future tougher for young people

Human beings are lazy. Saying so is not judgmental: it is a fact. We have evolved to prefer to conserve energy so that we have it for the important things, like going hunting, fighting invaders or whatever. The problem is when our environment allows us to be lazy – and could even encourage it – we might fail to motivate ourselves to complete those tasks that we need to.