Teacher Van Nhu Cuong's 'laziness cure' speech goes viral

During the opening ceremony of Luong The Vinh High School, Associate Professor, Dr. Van Nhu Cuong inspired students through a meaningful message. That was the lesson "one minute cures laziness".

Teacher Van Nhu Cuong (Chairman of the School Board, Luong The Vinh High School, Hanoi) shared at the opening ceremony.

In a short ten-minute conversation with the students, Mr. Van Nhu Cuong shared his heartfelt thoughts.

“Today, on the opening day of the new school year, I would like to discuss with you students a problem. If you can overcome it, our results will be even better.

Dear students, you may be surprised that today I will tell you about a disease that more or less all of us will suffer from. Although this disease does not kill people immediately, it is very dangerous. If many people are not determined to seek treatment, they can become useless people. Even more dangerous, if many people in society suffer from this disease, they will become poor and backward, never progressing. This disease gradually turns the patient into a person with a low personality, living in a herd manner and not contributing to society.

That is, the teacher is talking about laziness, a disease that is spreading rapidly. This disease has the following manifestations and symptoms: laziness to study, laziness to listen to lectures, laziness to do homework, laziness to think, laziness to debate, laziness to ask questions.

Why is that? Being lazy to read books or just reading nonsense books, being lazy to read reference books; being lazy to work, being lazy to do manual work even for oneself; being lazy to do sports, to train the body. There are many more symptoms of laziness. Surely each of you feels that you have suffered from those symptoms.

Every person has a very limited time to live, if they suffer from laziness, that time becomes even shorter. The patient lives a lethargic life, they do not think about anything, cannot do anything even though time still passes from hour to hour, day to day, even year to year.

Mr. Van Nhu Cuong gave a specific example of the harmful effects of laziness.

“Let’s imagine this: A new day has just begun, but at six o’clock in the morning our lazy child is still sleeping under the covers. His parents come into the room to urge him to get up to get ready for school, but he mumbles, “Let me sleep a little longer today, I had to do homework until midnight yesterday.” In fact, he didn’t study at all last night, he just sat chatting with his friends and playing games online.

So he fell asleep until a quarter to seven before waking up, then hastily cleaned himself up, got dressed in a hurry, didn't have time to eat the breakfast his mother had prepared for him, and hurriedly got on his electric bike to rush to school. When he suddenly remembered that he wasn't wearing a helmet, he clicked his tongue, "I'll have to hide from the police, it's too late to go home to get my helmet now."

He had to choose a road with no police, he arrived at school ten minutes late and was not allowed to enter the classroom but had to wait for the next period. Then he went down to the cafeteria to eat breakfast and think about how to lie to the homeroom teacher if she asked why he was late, and how to make her not text his mother about this.

In the second period, the teacher announced that the students should prepare their papers for a fifteen-minute test. While copying the test, he sighed in frustration, "That's it, I don't know what day it is today that I'm so unlucky." He wrote the following: Teacher, last night I had to go to the airport to pick up my family from abroad, the plane was delayed and I didn't get home until late, I didn't have time to study, please forgive me this time.

After school, he came home looking exhausted. When his mother asked him, he said, "I'm so tired, my head hurts like a hammer." Even though his mother told him to go eat and rest, he said he didn't eat or drink anything and went upstairs. A while later, the maid brought him a bowl of pho. He ate it very well, but intentionally left some leftovers. He pretended to be nauseous and then covered himself with a blanket and went to sleep.

In the afternoon, he woke up and got on the bus to go to extra classes. The class was very crowded and he went to the end of the room - where his lazy group usually sat. The teacher lectured nonstop while they talked about everything under the sun. In the afternoon, after dinner, the whole family sat watching TV. When the exciting part came, his parents told him to go to his room to study. He closed the door and started chatting with his friends.

So, his normal day passed like the previous days, if there was no cure, his laziness would continue, and the following days would pass like that.

Students of Luong The Vinh school form the school's symbol during the opening ceremony.

From specific manifestations, Mr. Van Nhu Cuong has proposed a solution that he considers effective to cure laziness.

“First of all, everyone needs to know whether they have laziness or not and at what stage, is it just starting or has it reached the level that people call laziness. When they know they have the disease, everyone wants to cure it, but this disease has no specific medicine, it mainly depends on the determination of the patient. As a human being, everyone has aspirations.

The teacher talked about the method to help patients recover quickly. He would like to introduce a very important method that has had a great effect on almost the whole world, which is the "Kaizen" method. This method is a combination of two words: "kai" which means "innovation" and "zen" which means "intelligently". This method was invented by the Japanese philosopher Masaaki Imai.

According to this method, every day you only need to spend exactly one minute. Exactly one set time to do the work that you are laziest, most bored with. One minute later you will stop doing that work. The most important thing is to do it every day and do it at the set time.

The task for that minute could be doing ten push-ups, or learning an English word and some sentences containing that word, or doing some simple math problems in your workbook. You have to do that for exactly one minute and then stop, but you have to be determined not to be affected by any procrastination, that is, do it for exactly one minute every day.

This method is popularly known as the one-minute cure for laziness. After doing it for a while, you will feel attracted to it and that is when you achieve the first step of success in overcoming laziness, then one day you feel that one minute is not enough to make the work interesting for you, then you can increase the working time from one minute to five minutes, ten minutes or if necessary, twenty minutes.

So you have overcome laziness and from now on you can supplement your initial work with some other useful work. You can use this “Kanzen” method and you will certainly be surprised by the results you get. I myself have tested this method and found it to be very effective. Remember that whatever work can be done today, do not leave it until tomorrow.

According to Dantri