More effort doesn't always give a better result.

Gilbreth (Frank Bunker) studied the methods of various bricklayers—the poor workmen and the best ones, and he stumbled upon an astonishing fact of great importance and significance. He found that he could learn most from the lazy man!

Most of the chance improvements in human motions that eliminate unnecessary movement and reduce fatigue have been hit upon, Gilbreth thinks, by men who were lazy—so lazy that every needless step counted.”

Another important thing Gilbreth noted was that the so-called expert factory workers are often the most wasteful of their motions and strength. Because of their energy and ability to work at high speed, such men may be able to produce a large quantity of good work, and thus qualify as experts, but they tire themselves out of all proportion to the amount of work done. (Popular Science Monthly, 1920).

A lazy man, Dad believed (referring to Gilbreth F.), always makes the best use of his Therbligs because he is too indolent to waste motions. Whenever Dad started to do a new motion study project at a factory, he’d always begin by announcing he wanted to photograph the motions of the laziest man on the job. (Cheaper by the Dozen, Gilbreth Carey E., 1948).

When I have a tough job in the plant and can’t find an easy way to do it, I have a lazy man put on it. He’ll find an easy way to do it in ten days. Then we adopt that method. Clarence E. Bleicher. (The Speaker’s Treasury of Stories for All Occasions, Prochnow H. V, 1953).

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