You could perhaps invert laziness as you define it here and call it diligence / drive / industriousness? I like industriousness best. That would partly avoid the moral loading of laziness.
The 5-step measurement process you outline - that's pretty ambitious. I assume the measurement/reliability for all of those would be imperfect. How accurate would that construct be after the 5 steps?
And one aspect of the fifth step... someone might be industrious to chase girls, another one to chase status, or do science etc etc. You'd need a battery of real world tests or just limit it to a narrow domain. This conceptual stuff is interesting but complicated, perhaps that's why some intuitive measures have not been formalized. Similarly for creativity in your recent post.
You could perhaps invert laziness as you define it here and call it diligence / drive / industriousness? I like industriousness best. That would partly avoid the moral loading of laziness.
The 5-step measurement process you outline - that's pretty ambitious. I assume the measurement/reliability for all of those would be imperfect. How accurate would that construct be after the 5 steps?
And one aspect of the fifth step... someone might be industrious to chase girls, another one to chase status, or do science etc etc. You'd need a battery of real world tests or just limit it to a narrow domain. This conceptual stuff is interesting but complicated, perhaps that's why some intuitive measures have not been formalized. Similarly for creativity in your recent post.