You shouldn't feel bad about postponing your education. If you look at Harvard's J.D Class of 2023, the vast majority of them have taken time off after college, with 23% of the class being out of college for 4 or more years. Spending time off after …
We tend to overestimate what we can do in a week, and tend to underestimate what we achieved in a year.
If you were to judge yourself narrowly by only looking at this week's performance, then you may see yourself as lazy.
But if we look more broad…