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ESSAY #12:

STOP WORKING HARD

Smart Work versus Hard Work

A ‘hard worker’ is someone who is diligent, laborious and puts in a lot of ef-

fort and long hours into doing and completing tasks.

A ‘smart worker’ is someone who works intelligently and efficiently and

achieves results with minimum effort.

This is a topic of considerable interest. Fortunately, most of my students re-

alise that smart work is much better than hard work. Hard work has been glo-

rified by the theories of Communism. Parents and teachers promote the

goodness of hard work because they compare it with the choice students of-

ten take of opting for wasting their time and procrastination. These are dumb

choices and not smart choices! In this essay I have tried to clarify as to why

smart work is much better than just hard work. In fact, smart work is

the only way to progress!

Some Examples of Hard Work versus Smart Work

• A takes 10 hours to cut a tree with sincere effort. B takes one hour to

sharpen the axe and cuts a similar tree in 5 hours.

• A & B are athletes of equal standard. A practices for a 5 km run compe-

tition 14 hours per week for 4 weeks, i.e. 56 hours. B practices for 4

hours per week for 4 weeks, i.e. 16 hours. B beats A comfortably!

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