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• A & B are students of matching academic competence. A studies for 12
hours every day. B studies for 8 hours every day with better planning.

Both take the same competitive exam. B scores much higher than A!

Arguments in Favour of Smart Work

• Smart work implies good planning, clarity of goals, efficiency and util-

ising the best-known practices to accomplish the task.

• Tasks can be accomplished faster by smart work.

• Time saved can be used productively for other pursuits.

• The method will keep you energised and not leave you exhausted.

• Smarter work will provide you more time to invest in personal growth
and enhance your competence.

• A smart worker enhances efficiency and effectiveness by using the fol-

lowing smart choices:

o Delegate less-complex tasks to subordinates.

o Prioritise tasks based on relative importance.

o Stop doing unimportant things.

o Reduce time spent in doing routine things by enhancing effi-

ciency — Principle of Kaizen.

Arguments against Hard Work

• It is an exhausting experience. After doing laborious hard work you
are left with little energy to do anything else.

• Hard work does not allow you to fully use your brain and it pushes you
for more physical effort.

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