Topic: Working smart vs working hard - an ultimate guide - page 15. (Read 2005 times)

I think it is more in favor if you will be working smart because that is the key for the people to have a faster progress toward success rather than those people who want to become successful that will undergo to the method of working hard because working hard will require a lot of effort and energy while working smart will require less energy but more intellectual so you will execute things faster.

I think the same way too. I think making smart choices and decisions with work does imply
that you are a hard worker with promising potential and goals. Being smart and responsible
in the commitments assimilates the fact that you have a lot going on and success is at your
sights if you put a lot of work and thought in it. With the fast and developing technologies
today, the vast array and availability of tools and information, anybody can produce efficient
strategies and solutions to a number of obstacles, challenges and goals. It's a wonderful thing
having to be smart and working hard at it, a promising fusion of excellent qualities.

To make it simple, working hard is following the basic rule in which you will go through a long and difficult process in order to achieve something. Working smart is having a unique and creative idea to cut the proccess. Hence, achieving the goal in a short period of time.

Take the story of Hare and the Turtle race, in which the latter won by outsmarting the hardworking and fast running hare.

This is one of those things that is difficult for some to understand but that are very obvious, some people think they will have a good idea one day and start business and make a fortune without working hard but it doesn't work that way if you look at most of the successful inventors and discoveries in the history of humanity you will see people that invested an enormous amount of time in order to find a way to make their products work, so it is impossible to just work hard or work smart, you need both if you want to be successful.

Only work smartly to make a profit, I think a hard-working person will not be as profitable as a smart person. Useful for investors, but without the intelligence, the investor will be at risk in their work.

some times we have to work hard only like we cannot use automated bots in some typing works. we have to do it by ourselves only

I wouldn't trust Bill Gates on this. He has been caught lying many times in the past. In simple terms, I don't like him and people of his kind. A lazy person will remain lazy, and that has nothing to do with their intelligence. You can be both intelligent and industrious, smart and diligent, and there's nothing wrong with that. Obviously, the correct way to put it would be to hire an intelligent person rather than a stupid one. But that is kind of too obvious and self-evident.

I don't like this attitude of "working hard" to gain success. Literally speaking, would someone think of climbing 10 mountains in order to maximize their chance of success? I think in terms of flow and freedom. If everything was fun and easy and plain simple... Wouldn't be hard to get up each morning and do that. I worked the best when i found that flow, that trance like concentration... then is not hard, is just being in a state of high productivity and awareness.

Would you rather take 10 chances and have 50% percent rate of missing the target ? or Take 2 chances with only 10% chance of missing. While only taking time to prepare.

The truth is that is very difficult to separate both, those that work smart most of the time put a great amount of effort in their jobs and as you may guess that is working hard, and those that work hard also have no option but to work smart at some point if they want to maximize their effort, so we may say that even if I will like to work smart over working hard to do this is almost impossible to do one without the other, take the time to look at any success story and you will see the people not only worked hard but worked smart as well.

I agree with that, cause if you are working smart every step and sweat that yiu take is worth and productive well you can actually apply the working hard stuff caude no matter how great the idea if you dont have the motivation and dedication to do it, its useless and you are just wasting your money in that certain business , better if combine the two.

Look man, the most successful personalities today clearly has both traits plus courage. It is like yin and yang together with the outer circle that holds it together. With one missing, it will not be as it is anymore and there will be great imbalance that is obviously isn't good in any situation. Which is clearly the same as this one. Because fear can hinder a hard working person from taking the smarter approach.
For example :
If person one is working smart but not working hard enough or lacks courage, It would be like having a feast just two steps ahead but just settles on the steak that is two steps behind the feast and one step ahead from the pig's feet because he's too tired and hungry and can't be sure as to whether those dishes on that feast are still edible or not because no one is eating there. Just like in real life, opportunities are everywhere but isn't for everyone.

And then there's person two that is a hard working person doing lots of overtime but does not work smart enough to know what opportunities to grab or is too afraid to go out of his comfort zone. Now this person will only be capable of making ends meet and not have financial freedom or live the life that everyone dreams of.


You see, working in any field or industry you will always need the smarts, the hard working attitude and  the courage to make the biggest decisions or jumps because having only one or two of these three can only take you so far, but not to your goals and dreams.

At least that is how I see life.

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EDIT : The guy silberman completely makes sense. If a person having that advantage plus the same hard work he would've poured into the said job without that script onto something else, then productivity will greatly increase even more than what it currently is.
The point is if there are still time to slack more than what the mind and body needs to rest, this means a person is not working hard enough. Time management is also one of the keys to having a great life which is a part of working smart.

Yes, that's the point I tried to emphasize in my previous post here and even added it to my piggy bank of ideas about working smart. The human brain is wired in such a way that it can find enjoyment and satisfaction in repetitive tasks that are not very demanding on it in terms of creative stress and the discomfort it brings about, something which smart working surely involves or even requires. So you can work an additional hour just like that but that would be hard working as far as hard working goes. Working smart requires a conscious effort on your part, but many, if not most people, prefer to keep things the old way, the "hard" way.

Both working smart and working hard are partners to become a successful person whether someone is working for others or working for your own self. The fact that you are doing both is an indicator that you are a good person as you work. In everything we do, we should be working smart and hardworking. As with bitcoin, it is also applicable.

If you are concerned on what is best, working as employee or having your own business, well I should say that it is really best to have your own business. Make yourself rich and empower other people.

We need to set goals and prerogatives, the idea of working hard may cover up the idea of working smart, and vice versa. It is a matter of perception on the way you create opportunities for your self to reach your ultimate target in life. There are several affecting factors that would be vital for your dreams and ambitions, like, time frame, strategy, luck and etc, so it does not really depend on just being smart or industrious, although these two are probably the most important factors of them all.

I think both are important. Working hard and smartly both can lead you to success. But working smart is most important. If you are unexperienced hard working won't give you any result. So I will suggest you to working smartly.

Times has changed. Back in the last centuries working hard is essentials in life, but nowadays working smart is more reliable and efficient. The nowadays technologies offer to give us an opportunity to make our life easier.

What I can't understands is why many peoples still choosing te working hard dogma while it's already old-fashioned and proveable to be inefficient with the current society.

you are right, working hard and working smart requires the same persistence, the difference is in the location of the income and time needed, a smart person will create new innovations to make additional income and save his working time

There is not much difference in between working harder and working smarter. You must put in your efforts in both the cases and that if you will use your brain while doing work and that you will plan the things smartly, then this will help you out in making of a good progress and that this way you will also be able to do more things in lesser time which will help you in making of more money.

The people who had lost the golden opportunity,are forced to work hard to get more money.Suppose you had got a chance to get into high paying job ,you have to get that with the smart work.If you had lost that opportunity,then you are forced to work hard for  your future.Work smart to shine in your life.

to work smart you need experience sometimes you need to work hard and cant work smart as you need some things