working hard vs working smart?

[Roly]

You know I find it funny how the mainstream media and all the public messaging out there like the Public High School system keeps saying " workhard !' and you'll get somewhere in life". " Workhard ! and all your freaking dreams will come true! " Workhard ! Laziness will never get you anywhere in life."

Well, I believe "working hard" will get you somewhere but to an extent. Personally, I believe we as humans are lazy by nature and I consider myself one lazy guy, pretty much a "slacker" as some teachers would tell me.

But let's ask ourselves? Would you rather be using a freakin pipeline to have water in your house or hauling buckets of water with a bad back afterwards? Let's face it guys, it's not about
" hardwork" and backbreaking labor that will give you big bucks and fancy cars- it's all about working smart !

And besides, it's not the "hardworkers" that made the world a better place. It's the lazy people with their lazy ways of thinking to improve the quality of life. Without lazy people, their wouldn't be televisions, cars, sofas, stoves and lightbulbs etc. Without lazy and their desires to make everything more comfortable and convenient their wouldn't be elevators, our lazy asses would all have to settle for the stairs.

I know this one was an obvious answer. But I just want to point out the working smart will take you a lot further than " working hard". Take my advice guys.

 

[backbreaker]

I don't mean to bust your bubble but think about what you are saying before you post it.


If humans were "naturaly lazy", they wouldn't have survived the ice age.

If we were naturally lazy, i wouldn't be sitting on this chair, typing on an INTERNET forum from a PERSONAL COMPUTER.

Humans aren't NATURALLY LAZY, technology and convenience has made most people forget how to work.

It's the price you pay for technology.


And I KNOW you didn't just say a lazy person invented the lightbub. Do you know how many times Thomas Edison had to go back and remake the lightbub to work because it never could stay on? Over 1,000 times!

Contrary to what you just said, it's the people that put 100% into what they want to accomplish and don't take no for an answer that make a difference.

You can work smart, but if you don't work hard while working smart, you will get no where.

lol, how many millionare stories do you hear a guy say, "yeah, i'm a lazy bum, man me and my friends said we were tired of being broke, and we went to sleep, woke up, played some madden, and looked in our bank account and we had over 100 million dollars"

 

[Roly]

lol...Okay, okay I'll be modest and say you're right on somethings. But I just want to point out that I personally believe Working smart is waaay more effective than " Working Hard".

And I do believe on what you said, if you combine working hard AND - Working smart at the sametime you'll be twice as effective. What I'm up against is those stupid ways of Working hard like what I said above like hauling buckets of water instead of using Pipelines. " Working Hard" and studying alone by your lonesome and not even understanding the material in the first place instead of easily getting tutoring from your peers or another teacher and saving a lot of time in the process. Know what I mean?

Yes, if you workhard and work smart at the sametime you're on your way to some deep success.

And a lazy slacker who works smart will get a lot farther than someone who works " hard" and don't know what the hell is doing to begin with.

 

[backbreaker]

lol, what are you talking about?

Of COURSE, if you don't have a plan of action, you might as well not be working.

It's like going to the gym, and trying to do any workout that you want for that day.

At the end of the day you didn't accomplish MUCH.


But you still accomplished more than the guy that did nothing.

 

[Roly]

You know..back in the " lazy way of thinking". I don't want to be " wrong" or I don't want to be " right". This is just my personal opinion on this.

I personally believe we as human beings are naturally " lazy". We naturally want the best for ourselves and want to make things for ourselves comfortable and convenient and sometimes our survival depends upon it like the cavemen and indians like you said. And I don't think that's bad laziness, that's good laziness.

But I agree with what you said about technology, these days, we just have waay too much bad laziness, being a lazy guy myself which is one of my weaknesses that I need to work on, I know because I suffered from the symptoms myself. With all the the things we have these days, sometimes were just waaay too comfortable which can lead to boredom or even depression.

 

[AFK Protector]

I disagree 100%.

"Working smarter" is a phrase used by two people.

a) Self-help gurus who try to scam your money.
b) Lazy people.

Indeed, nothing in the world today was created without hardwork. Hardwork and dedication are the building blocks to success and progress.

Do not apply your own lazy habits to the rest of civilization. There were lazy people before you, but they are now dead and forgotten. No more important than a piece of dirt. The hardworking people were the ones who are in our textbooks, and in our minds forever.

No one is born "smarter" than another person. I do not like using the work smart. We are all born alike (except those with disabilities) and have the same potential. It is those who take that potential and develop it through hardwork that are later labeled "smart" in life.

 

[undesputable]

yea got to give it to back breaker there....we arent naturally lazy, we make outselves lazy. but other than that, yea of course is better to work smart than work hard

 

[Roly]

And also: What's more important than " working hard or working smart"?

My personal answer: You work at something YOU LOVE ! that way it's more fun and more meaningful. Cause that's what life is about, enjoying yourself.

 

[sifer]

Originally posted by AFK Protector
"Working smarter" is a phrase used by two people.

a) Self-help gurus who try to scam your money.
b) Lazy people.

I use that phrase often, does that mean I'm a self-help guru who is trying to scam people's money or does that mean I'm lazy?

Truth is, you're 17, but until you are old enough and capable enough to own your own business or invest, you will see what working smart means, it means efficiency and it means using your wit to get around obstacles.

Working smart has allowed me to put more than $100,000 in my bank account and I'm only 18.

And most 18 y/o do not even have more than $5,000 in their bank let alone $100,000 or more.

 

[STR8UP]

Originally posted by AFK Protector
I disagree 100%.

"Working smarter" is a phrase used by two people.

a) Self-help gurus who try to scam your money.
b) Lazy people.

You forgot one

c) People who understand that the key to success is managing money.

It has NOTHING to do with being lazy. It has NOTHING to do with hard work. The REAL payoff is in making smart decisions about how you manage whatever resources you have available to you and adding to you pool of resources whenever possible. In other words, working SMARTER.

Hard work is the first step most people take, no doubt. But the truly successful ones are the people who learn the right things and take the right paths (smarter). They make more and get there faster.

Do not apply your own lazy habits to the rest of civilization. There were lazy people before you, but they are now dead and forgotten. No more important than a piece of dirt. The hardworking people were the ones who are in our textbooks, and in our minds forever.

It has nothing to do with being lazy. It's about finding more efficient ways to do things, most importantly finding more efficient ways to put money in your pocket.

And who are the "hardworking people who fill our textbooks"? Seems to me that most of the people making history are doing so by contributing on the intellectual side, not the physical side.

No one is born "smarter" than another person. I do not like using the work smart. We are all born alike (except those with disabilities) and have the same potential. It is those who take that potential and develop it through hardwork that are later labeled "smart" in life.

Of course some people are born smarter than others. That doesn't mean that you have to be a genius to get ahead, but it never hurts to have a good head on your shoulders.

Good luck working hard. I hope it gets you where you want to go in life.

 

[MetalFortress]

Working smart without working hard is lame. Working hard without working smart is dumb. Those who become successful, do BOTH. Businessmen who grow their business and make them successful have been known to spend MANY more hours working on growing their business than your average working stiff would spend on his 9-5 job. You have to have a push to begin momentum, but the more momentum you get, the easier it is to keep it going.

 

[Nocturnal]

There is a difference between being lazy and being efficient.

You can create an efficient system for the sake of it simply being a better system. You don't have to be lazy to want to find a way to get more output for less work.

 

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Originally posted by MetalFortress
Working smart without working hard is lame.

how so?