Work smart, not hard.. Really?
We live in the information age where facts and figures about anything you could think of, are available to you. Now more than anything, the quest for success is a thirst that millions want to quench. There are people who have studied other people and will come up with conclusions about how to do this or that to make it.
The biggest issue now is that more and more people want to succeed without the process of actually working. The concept of 'working smart' is more or less used to denote you can do more by doing less; that hard work can be side stepped.
I agree that the information we have now will help us do our jobs better and more efficiently. You can start your business or kick start your career by avoiding so may mistakes that people went through before and it is well documented.
If you have a new product or a new business you have to work on marketing it, you have to make calls, you have to work on social media posting even without a large audience, you have to do product demonstrations, talk to potential financiers.. you have to work hard. It never stops even when the business is up and running. In between all of this, you will be in new territory most of the time where you work on things that were not 'smart' and you fail. But these are the building blocks on which your company or team will e built on.
Hard work to me is a constant, not a variable. It was true 1,000 years ago, it is true today and will be true millenia to come.
I don't agree with all the quotes in the beginning of the article. I especially detest any advice that tries to side step putting effort in what you do.
I believe you need to know yourself or your team, what you can do best, what needs to be worked on and how efficiently it can be done. You may not have all the 'smart' solutions all the time.
But you work, hard.
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I came across a few quotes about working hard that made me think.
"You don't need to work hard to earn an empire; there is an army of slaves to do it for you."
"I don't believe in luck or in hard work without the so called "work smart". It's not all about how you work hard but it's about how you manage your time, resources, mind to work together for a better output."
"The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fastest one."
“Talent without effort is wasted talent. And while the effort is the one thing you can control in your life, applying that effort intelligently is next on the list.”