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Many people say that you should work hard if you want to succeed in life and rise to riches. I'd rather say that working hard will only make your boss richer, not yourself. On the other hand, there is an age-old adage which says that you should be working smarter, not harder. But working smarter is a vague idea, and I'm interested to hear what people have to say on this topic. As far as I'm concerned, I think that working smart comes down to creating environment where you will have more chances to meet Lady Luck smiling at you, where you will be able to hit a lucky strike because luck plays an ever-important role in our lives. For example, if you want to find a date to have a romantic relationship with or you are looking for a one-night stand only, you will go to a beach or a bar since your chances are higher there, right? The same approach seems to be applicable to work as well. In other words, stick around the places where your chances of success are the highest.

So share your opinions here, guys. What is your practical take on working smart?

In this post I'm collecting interesting ideas, thoughts, and insights related to the topic, which are discussed somewhere in the thread.

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The thing which everyone should learn while still in the cradle. Essentially, working hard is a waste of life.


Informative post.


Another informative post.


I will try to explain the difference between working hard and working smart using an example from software development. Let's assume you have a large set of data which you should sort (arrange elements of the dataset in a certain order). You can take a naive approach and use a bubble sort algorithm which is devastatingly slow. Or you can use something like the quicksort algo which is extremely fast. In the end you will get the same result but times spent will be strikingly different. Now you can try to apply this example to real life.


I see your point and I don't particularly disagree with it. But I didn't mean you should rely on or hope for luck alone. You can continue to work hard for your boss as always and still be looking for an opportunity or chance to change your life dramatically to the better. Let's loosely call that working wise. Basically, all I wanted to say was to emphasize that you shouldn't discard or write off the importance of luck completely. Ignoring a stroke of luck when it happens all of a sudden against all odds would be the most foolish idea that you will likely regret for the rest of your life. In this manner, it makes sense to work toward increasing your chances of meeting Lady Fortune one day. For example, if you want to be romantically involved with someone, it means visiting places where your chances of starting a romantic acquaintance are the highest.


Frankly, I don't see where I'm wrong here when I mention luck and that you should not only take it into account as a possibility and be prepared to take advantage of it when it pops up, but in fact act toward increasing your chances of encountering it. If you mean that your boss is somehow depriving you of any chance of meeting luck in your life, I think this is simply impossible because it goes against the nature of luck. In other words, luck is something which is not supposed to happen but still happens, and whatever you or they do to close the doors to it, luck will overcome all the roadblocks in the end because it is in its very nature.


No, it doesn't sound like crazy. Actually, you came up with an idea of a passive income, which I haven't yet seen coming up in this thread, well, not in the part that I was able to push through yet. If anything, working smart can be defined as an activity directed towards building more sources of passive income. That's an interesting idea anyway. It seems like this is the ultimate goal of working smart, that is doing more with less until you don't need to do anything in the end. And if you are a smart guy, you won't stop there, so I emphatically agree with your attitude and point of view.


Yeah, that's the point I want to emphasize massively and which I wholeheartedly agree with. Maybe, it is the first thing you should do before you start off on a working smart journey, I mean, correctly assess you abilities and whether you are actually as smart as you think you are as well as finding your smart spots and sticking around them. That idea should be definitely added to the piggy bank of ideas making your life easier and wealthier.


The chances of wining a lottery are really low but that's not the kind of luck I'm talking about in this thread. I'm talking about smaller luck which everyone has encountered in their life without exception at some point and most likely missed it many times throughout their lifetime. We all have opportunities which are presented to us on a rather casual or regular basis. We miss them for different reasons, for example, because we don't see them as genuine opportunities at the moment when we meet them. Or it could be that we just don't believe in our lucky star and discard luck right away as something completely impossible, which is as stupid, if not more. This is the point which I want to highlight here.


It doesn't come down just to earning huge income while getting there with less effort. Rather, I'd say working smart can be conceptualized as achieving some desired outcome doing nothing altogether in the limit, likely even as an off-target effect of a series or even an avalanche of other off-target effects. On the other hand, working hard is the opposite of working smart (which is kinda obvious, huh), and in the limit means doing everything and still getting nothing. To me, this is where lies the great divide between working smart versus working hard.


That's a very interesting observation. It reminds me of a saying which is attributed to Abraham Lincoln who asked to give him six hours to chop down a tree and he would spend the first four sharpening the axe. The lesson to take home is that before fully engaging in your working activity, think first how you can make the job in the most efficient way so that you wouldn't waste hours or even days doing what can be done with less effort and in a shorter time span.


With wage labor the negative aspects of hard working become clear and evident without further explanation, kind of obvious. But it doesn't mean that if you are working hard for yourself only, you will fare much better. The point is when you work for the boss, it is your boss who takes the smart work from you and does it himself. But when you are your own boss, then you have to work smart by default if you want to stay in the business.


Luck and the opportunities it offers are what we should never forget of, the point which I specifically highlight in the OP. Sometimes, in fact, oftentimes, luck is what radically changes our life. Truth to be told, it is exactly because of luck that we as individual persons came into this world having been chosen by it from around a billion of other "candidates", so, in a sense, we were all born under a lucky star via our very existence. And if our life started with luck, we shouldn't discard it during our lifetime either. Discarding luck would be as stupid as relying just on it alone, but in the end (as well as in the beginning) it all comes down to luck.


I really liked the way you put it: work smart and play hard. I also massively agree with your other point regarding people who may have fewer resources (brains, industry, dedication, propensity, whatever that might mean) but who still manage to rise higher in life simply because they know how to play their cards.


That's another interesting point worthy of mentioning. I know that I may sound a bit arrogant here but such is life. We are able to work smart because someone else has chosen (or been chosen) to work hard. If people honestly believe that working all day long and leaving the office at late hour (and also working at weekends, why not, really) is good, such is their choice. Or rather someone else's (that would be their boss in this case) who was smart enough to successfully make them believe that they are doing the right thing for themselves, while, in reality, they are doing the right thing for their boss. This is a nice and revealing example how smart work differs from hard work.

It could be generalized in the following way. As much as you are aware of the circumstances, you work for yourself (circumstances work for you). On the flip side, as much as you are unaware of the circumstances, you work for someone else (circumstances work you). The evident conclusion is that working smart is working for yourself (in general terms), even if you are a typical office rat.

Working smart can save time rather than working hard. Because it's more time saving if you work smart you can able to determine whether it is time to invest or not.

I think you must always try to find position in life where you can have lot of options open, and try to be smart/informed enough to choose the best one it given moment.
But first you must know what you want and be clear in your goals.
When your goals are clear, you won't waste time on unnneccessary things anymore.

When you are unexperienced you must work hard, and working smart will come with time.

Yes, I support this view. You should be smart to realize that you are basically wasting your time, not receiving what you consider worth the effort applied. It seems to be a prerequisite for changing your approach or attitude toward your work. But in this thread it is kinda assumed, meaning we all want more for less. With that in mind, I daresay that the fault or deficiency is always inside of us even if working smart requires changing your environment completely, like changing your job. In other words, we would still need some internal disagreement or dissatisfaction with the status quo, while the lack of this dissatisfaction, or not enough of it, is that deficiency in this particular case.

The chances of wining a lottery are really low but that's not the kind of luck I'm talking about in this thread. I'm talking about smaller luck which everyone has encountered in their life without exception at some point and most likely missed it many times throughout their life. We all have opportunities which are presented to us on a rather casual or regular basis. We miss them for different reasons, for example, because we don't see them as genuine opportunities at the moment when we meet them. Or it could be that we just don't believe in our lucky star and discard luck right away as something completely impossible, which is as stupid, if not more. This is the point which I want to highlight here.

Work hard so that your time isn't wasted and that you'll learn how to further improve your gameplay. After then you have work smart so that you'll be up above the competition. You can work Hard all day everyday but without a goal or thinking about how everything goes you cannot progress or get promoted. Both go hand in hand and both are needed for success.

For me it is a very nice blend because both are in dire need for success, have one thing in common that is closely related. I think the good view you see from the positive side.

I am interested in your words before it remains in the environment that will provide the highest chance for success, I am also until now still looking for the most fitting circumstances and provide my opportunities for it, keep the spirit of success, and good luck

I think a lot of people work hard because they don't really know how to work smart. By this I mean that people must learn to do a little research first and then start working. Sometimes people spend a lot of time trying to solve a problem, that was already solved by someone else. Working hard is like needing a wheel and inventing it first, instead of using something that was already created. This way they would be able to do a much better job, if they worked smart. In terms of programming, I've always heard that a lazy programmer is a smart programmer, because he is ok in using what is already available to him, instead of trying to re-create every bit of code. Not talking about stealing here, you should always give credit to what you use.

Well yes I think manoeuvring your way through life into positions of greater opportunity is something humans have been doing for thousands of years. Its in our nature to seek out abundance. However I don't think an over abundance of wealth nessasarily increases your happiness and there is probably something beneficial a hard days work can have on your mind

Let me give an insight or my point of view. Since I am also working and can relate to this topic with the thing what you called "work smart" and "work hard", I can say that these categories can be group as to how productive and efficient one person can be in a given environment or workplace. The difference is that to work smarter is do task or chores in a very efficient way and probably ended up with great results without you exerting to much effort(it does not mean that giving less effort gives a worse outcome since you are doing it in a very effective way possible). As to work hard stance, you are doing what things that are designated to you in a normal way and it means that you are not thinking of a better way to improve it(probably because you are focus on just finishing the task and not thinking of an efficient way to complete it).

Well, that's an interesting question really. When I come to think of it, somehow I am always cornered with the thought that there is no absolute yardstick about working smart because it's all relative. We can think about working smart vs working hard in two different dimensions which don't necessarily collide and often even don't overlap. On the one hand, it is how we ourselves feel about our work. For example, we may be not quite satisfied with what we do, thinking that we could work smarter, not harder, with essentially the same result. On the other hand, it is what others think about what we do. Obviously, people may think that you are working in a smart way while you may in fact think differently, and vice versa. Perhaps, there are other dimensions to this riddle or puzzle.

Between working hard and working smart; I will tell you that working smart is the best and it really pays. But most people don't know about this or don't believe in that ideology. They believe working day and night, leaving the office at late hour after everyone is gone is the way wealth. All that is just nothing but stress activators. When you do things the smart way; you stay healthy to enjoy the fruit of your labor but if the other way, the person might die even before the wealth start coming in.

An example of working hard can be attributed to Africans who mostly use their energy to clear wide areas of land for farming alone and because of that they are less productive but if they have the latest in agricultural machinery, they could have improve their productivity a thousandfold and that i believe is working smart.

Let me share my experience with you. I will share the experience regarding online work. I used to write content at $1 per 500 words when I was in college. With time passing by and some experience I came to know that some people are getting $1 per 100 words. I put some advertisements and got much work at such rates. Then I realized that only way to get rich with this is to resell the content writing services. I was managing more than 10 writers at one time and all were busy enough with my work.

Working hard has two directions viewing angles that are obviously very different.
1. Work hard on other people : Of course this kind of work will benefit our boss to become richer (as op said), because our lives are easily controlled by the finger of our boss.
2. Work hard for (the company) myself : It's better because we can directly accelerate the growth (development) of our company to be more advanced means there are obvious reasons to get rich.

Meanwhile working in a smart way.
This's clearly the goal only for the advancement of the self not for the progress of others, in this way we can enrich ourselves even faster than working hard on other.
There are several factors that support this type of work, among others: skil, experts and cunning, these three factors are very potential to make someone work smartly.

It is the way parents are manipulating their children trying to make themselves into rolemodels for their offspring, without ever understanding that they are in fact making them bad service. You may not be good at something, and that's okay since no one is perfect, but don't pretend your way is the only way to success or what you achieved is the ultimate success anyone can only hope for in their life. Interestingly, this is perfectly in line with how bosses are manipulating their staff, though they are not evidently following this route themselves. So it is a deliberate manipulation on purpose.

They say this as a way of saying: do not be lazy and push yourself.


have your own business and get good profits... if you work for a company, then you must raise money and build your own company, this is what I call smart work. In the company of owner you never know when the owner of the company will dismiss you and if you die your wife and children will suffer.

But in case you have your own company, you die your wife and children will be managing the company.

working smart, is when you work to create conditions for the future you have your own company

   I was reading Jack London - Martin Eden recently. Martin was working hard in loundry 6 days per week, he lost opportunity to dream and plan new ways to find his place under the Sun, such life also made him drink to take a mental break from constant labour. He could not save money for future because of small salary. His mate left the loundry to become a tramp, Martin said: "Indeed, better to be a tramp than work like that".
   So I also dont beleive hard labour makes people rich, they would better spend their enegry to find better place and better business field which fits their skills and aims

Good way - turn a hobby into a job.
But there we have a problem - if hobby becomes a job, you can start hating it

Actually, I don't think we can draw a distinction here, though I agree that working hard looks like a cruel misnomer. That is, we shouldn't in fact compare working hard with working smart. It should rather be working the right way (smart way) versus working the wrong way (stupid way). What I mean is that you can't distinguish the right way from the wrong way just by how quickly you get tired. I think it is not a proper yardstick. In other words, you can tirelessly and enthusiastically do something which still wouldn't be considered smart, as in working smart (obviously), by any metric.

The idea that you should work smarter, not only harder isn't anything new. When talking about the difference between smart and hard work it's pretty simple to explain what working hard means. If you want to be successful in the long run, you have to put long hours into work.

Come on man ...I don't think that.. by working smart you have to do less work..rather than your work load is increased because you have to use your brain too ..to give everything a direction.
I think that... Working hard and working smart ..both are related as

Working smart = working hard + Giving..that hardwork a definite direction.

working smart is time-saving and you can maximize the potential of anything that you are doing in a simple way and make more productive.
Working out thing doesn't need to make it a full force but add some knowledge to make it easier. working hard is a good way but not always a nice thing to have.
why don't we work hard in a very smart way?

In order to work in a smart way, you need to spend a lot of time to get a large amount of knowledge. This is very hard work. For training you do not get paid for their efforts. Most often you spend your money in exchange for knowledge. That's why very few people can make money doing smart work. People who do not know how to think with your head think with your hands. This is the law of life.

It is natural that if you hard work you can get the benefit of that and for me the bitcoin working is very useful while the users are interested in this currency to make investment now and secure the future like the bitcoin users people are thinking that may this will disappear but the bitcoin users are happy to hold this currency and the importance developed by the bitcoin have made the people psychology for the investment in the altcoin too and now the altcoin are also good to trade.

I agree on you.Before thinking of becoming a smart person,you should atleast work harder first to be knowledgeable and skillful in a certain field.I believe this two would be a total compliment for each other.No one gets wrong if you use your smart mind and apply hardwork and perseverance to make your goal achieved.

And just imagine how much we don't hear about that story. As Henry Ford once said, "I am ready to account for any day in my life, but don't ask me how I made my first million". I guess it is the same with every poor boy who made it to the riches. We are told beautiful stories, but we are rarely told what skeletons or shadows are hiding behind every fortune. And if we knew the whole story, we would likely be surprised how little a role hard work played there. I think in most cases it all comes down to turning up in the right place at the right time.

right. working hard can not lead us to fast riches. but only benefit others. if at the company at the beginning we do have to work hard. to get a position at work.
and after that position we can. we should be able to work smart. perhaps a small example of finding a loophole for corruption. but we must have some related knowledge of it. so that our corruption is not in the know, I've done it until I can make my own company ;D

Since, from my experience, I never know where those right places are, I think the best approach is to try to do at least something rather than thinking of a strategy over and over again. Of course I agree that working smart is better than working hard, but to be smart you have to get some experience first, so I think it's better while you are young to concentrate on working hard, and then after some years of hard working it will be easier for you find a way to work smart.

You should do both since this increases the chances of getting better outcomes in your life, however a lot people prefer to work harder than to work smarter because working harder is more straightforward and easier to implement in order to work harder you only need to work for an additional hour and you're already working harder, but working smarter is a lot more difficult to do what you need to do is figure out a way to do your work in a more efficient manner to save your time and energy that you can later use for something else.

Your hard work takes a lot of time and effort. What will you do after work? No is not an option. It seems to me that while you are young you need to focus on studying. Of course you will have to limit yourself in many ways at this time. But only this can help you to have a highly paid intellectual job in the future.

There is a difference in between hobby and a job. You need to keep both the things separately as you will end up doing both the things in a wrong way if you will mix them up.

However, you need to take your job very much seriously because this is something which helps in meeting up all your needs and that you need to be sure that you are putting in enough of the efforts and that too in a right way to get good earning.

I think working smart is the key to success, because even if we work verry hard through our work in a verry low salary, I think we cannot gain a huge amount of profit even if we do work hard in a verry long term, I think no one will happen unto us if we are leaning on a hard work without using our mind. The important thing here is that we know how to work smarter than work harder in a work that cannot give us a huge amount of profit.

in my opinion
i think i like working smart, can be make high result, an many succes people has a smart strategy while they work.

for me working smart is more good than workhard because even you workhard to earn a lot of btc or etc or something if you dont have a smart to gamble it i think your workhard will become stone so i think workhard is good or its okay if you have both so it will give to you an opportunity to win  and to get a lot of profit by doing that.

Working Smart is far more effective because it could divide the time and Manpower on the job. It really has to be done because if hard work alone will not be enough because if the smart work without thinking of the pleasure and others will not be useful.

Hi,

You have already made a similar post, right?

I think that luck, as well as work, is part of the equation. If you never work and are not particularly lucky... Well nothing special will happen.

But what makes a real different is your environment. If you have been raised in a wealthy family, life will be easier for you. And that's a fact. Your relatives will be more aware of the "golden paths" leading you to jobs that are well-paid and no too difficult. You will have a greater culture, just because it was part of your education. And thus, social interactions will go easy!

For me family and the environment in which you grew up is the biggest explanatory factor. As for luck and work.. well they come largely after!

That's right and that's what I meant. Studying is very hard work, isn't it? It's much easier to do physical labor 8 hours per day, 5 days per week, hanging out with friends rest of the time. When you study you do it almost 24/7 and that's why it's much harder. But, yeah, it pays off eventually. Normally those who pursue this path are paid less than their friends who choose physical labor for years, but at some point everything changes and people who committed themselves to studying start getting higher payments.

I you love what you do then you are not working, you are more than enjoying it.

work not too hard You also have to pay attention to health condition that you have and not only that you also have to give your time to interact with family and your wife therefore work smart and professional very penitng to maintain body condition and family harmony.

I'm probably one of the older guys in this forum, with more than half of my life spent working in some job or other and a fair share of work environments over the years. Blue collar, white collar, remote freelancing, even non-profit field work.

So here is my opinion into the ring. And this being crypto makes almost absolutely no difference.

1. There will always be lucky people. These are exceptions rather than rules. Some crypto billionaires, some lottery winners, but if they all fail to work hard, they find that wealth not earned is wealth not kept.

2. Hard work is the pre requisite. Talent and smarts give you the edge but hard work translates the edge to results. No exceptions. The best athletes will say they are lucky, but the more they work/practise, the luckier they get. Probably holds true to the bitcoin trader!

3. A lot of people I know pursue the "smart" path, thinking iy is the easier and quicker alternative to hard work. These end up working hard to pursue aimless goals, always thinking they just need to find the smart formula. Probably applies to gamblers and a lot of crypto traders and ICO investors.

A person who is working hard is just relying with their job well done, their effort and sacrifices are worth for a price but nonstop working and not thinking the possible ways to improve their skills and capability to do work as smart one or work wiser to build their own business that will ended up to a fruitfull result of their smartest effort.

As an individual you should have to do both at the same time, work hard smartly, why choose only one if you can do  multitasking?  even thou there is a difference between the two given choices but you should do it the best of what you can do. the very big Word Here is don't be lazy, even rich are not lazy to make money i'm not talking here literally but idiomatically, in the crypto world you have to work your ass till you say that 1000 btc is cheap for you, even scammers work very hard and smartly to earn but in illegal way. However, if you just keep on wandering and if you don't try experiencing then you'll not afford to acquire lesson and information in other words no application.

For me i prefer to have both.Working smarter is still not enough if you don't have patience and hardwork.The two should always go together.You cannot reach your goal if you only work harder without using your smart mind.Smart mind will also not succeed if it will not work continuously.Therefore,these two should always conpliment each other.

Investing in Bitcoin is one of the finest examples of Smart Work. People who recognized the opportunity at early stages and invested in Bitcoin had made a huge profits till now.
In this era of digitalization, Hard work does not really pay well. Even phone are smart now, so we also need to be smart now.

First of all, I perfectly see your point and I think that many people follow it in their daily life. It is definitely a better approach than squandering money on useless things like fancy clothes and restaurant dinners or just on a lavish lifestyle, let alone on things which are plain detrimental to your health and well-being like drugs, sex, and rock'n'roll. However, you should be aware of the age-old wisdom about some people are penny wise and pound foolish. You may still be saving for a better life while essentially wasting it. Is it really worth it? This is the question which you should ask yourself.

There is a Chinese proverb "What is the use of running fast when we are not in the right road" Thus, if we do hard work for a thing which is not exactly the correct way to achieve success doesn't benefit anyone, smart work on what to do and when to do on which way is more beneficial for success. Hope more smart work and a bit hard work reap success.

Yeah you got it right and that is why we should be paying attention to the smart work in our life. Smart work should be such that we dont make our family disappointed neither we make our work balance go worst. Everything should work hand in hand and thus we wont end up doing one thing lot more than needed. This is the right approach to do it. Yes, we all know that hard work matters a lot but it has to be with some limits and we should not overdo it so that we will go away from our families. After all they are the one for whom we are creating all the wealth and better living.  ;)

It was a great read, Hell-raiser. I have never been a hard worker, truthfully I'm super lazy but very conscious of my duties. So I always had to find some way/options to complete my job in easy/quickest way, so that I can sleep rest of the day. Let me give a small example. When I was at school, I often offered 1-2 chocolates/Icecream to my daughter for doing my written homework. I know that wasn't good, but since I was a little kid, it can be a smart move. And now, I always find efficient ways to done works.
At this point, I want to remind you what Bill Gates said, “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”

It's not compulsory to work hard  for the success in your life.You can work smarter.It's a past dialogues.Now a days,only the smart guys succeed in life and business.Even if you are working in the full time job,you need work smarter to get higher position.

It’s hard to be on what is best for one,, we’re into such status to work hard and work smart.. But we failed,, why not being the two person in one.. Why not be a better persona in a simple and one sided individuality.. A case of what is best when all that matters is a chance to prove something beyond what you think you are..

Do what I makes you think that suits you because standards are normal, but reality is a continuous learning.. No boundaries..

So your opinion is all about the smart work and nothing else. I think in little different way but I dot really say that my opinion is all about the hard work doing. I believe in change lot, I think we must change according to the situation that we are into. For example, when there is extreme need of doing hard work like you have to complete few tasks for which the protocol is ready and you dont have to worry about thinking process then thats the point where you just do hard work to finish. The outcome would be perfect one because for this outcome the process was already well thought. However when you have to make decision about something really important and outcome lies in proper guid then you have to be smart while working on it. SO change accordingly is the best way.

You need both in order to succeed here in bitcoin industry. One example of working smart is when you buy a coin when the price drop and sell it when it rise up again, another thing is how you manage your time and money carefully. While on the other hand, working hard is when you do your work maybe on trading that you must learn first the history of the coin you would want to buy and examine the movement of it in the market. But if I were to choose only one I would pick the working smart attitude because you'll lose absolutely nothing if you play smart.

Doing your work improves your productivity faster. Work hard to help you achieve your goals in the plan with the most accurate time. Intelligence and persistence are two essential elements for you to get the job done quickly and efficiently but often the person doing the work usually has only one of these two virtues. So in order to achieve more success in the future, you should improve your thinking and practice more perseverance.

I am very happy to see that we are beginning to challenge these ideas that we should be working harder and longer. Because quantity does not at all equal quality. And in fact many creative processes cannot be subjected to the rigour of specific number of Work hours, etc. I am slowly trying to accept and understand that also, although I find it difficult and sense a certain guilt when I don't conform to the Work hard/long motto

I can confirm that. It turns out that at times (but not always, obviously) when you are not busy in hard toil or some tiring task, you may feel remorse and guilt for not sticking to that work hard thing. But at the end of the day, it may happen that you didn't actually waste your time but did the right thing which would handsomely pay you back in the future. It is like staying away from trading completely for some time while letting your profits grow.

In order to work smart you need first work hard. We cant realize what is smart unless we first work hard. There is a lot of elements in working smart. Sometimes it is luck and we all know that you need to deserve your luck. Maybe the only way to deserve it is working hard.

Work with interest, this combination really have charm within it. It is often said, “If you do what you love to do, you will get what you love to have”. Same is the case with bitcoins.

If someone have interest in market and business orientation, he must be going with this field throughout the life. Believe me, such people get more profits in return because they have shown extra concern and interest in their input.

I think what you say makes another "crucial" point in helping you understand the difference between working smart and working hard. I am always shocked at what we are taught in schools and even at universities or colleges. Most of the stuff taught there is sheer nonsense, and you have to sift tons of trash to find a few pearls of wisdom and things that actually work in real life. Add to the cocktail the ingredient that most people don't even care about working smart in the first place and you will see the current status quo in the business.

I spent most of my life looking back at the time I felt I wasted in formal education, though in my latter stages of life I came to appreciate the soft skills that teachers had and stopped blaming them, since they were just tools of a flawed system... it was great being young and able to compete with a lot of more educated people, even lent me airs of certain arrogance. But if anything, it did teach me the value of working hard. I found it funny also that some teachers encouraged "smart working"... telling you what worked for them, thinking that it'd also help us in life. Again, not blaming them but experience sometimes is necessary. You do need to make mistakes to learn from them. Wisdom is something gained with age (and prerequisite mistakes). And for that, I will say that wisdom isn't a big commodity in crypto yet. A lot of people who think they've stumbled on the smarts by being involved with crypto yet lacking the wisdom to see that a lot of their good fortune... is fortune, not knowledge, not smarts, not skill.

everybody has their own advantages we can not consider it the same, there are smart coding there are smart math, there are smart robotics, there are ordinary ordinary but have good body strength, for example in sports, many athletes are rich with strength body just like boxing and bodybuilding, I myself a little smart in math and analysis then I choose to be a credit analyst

Earlier people said that hardwork is needed to succeed in life.But nowadays that quote has changed a little and now it's said that smart work is needed for better success.

There is a story in which it is said that two persons were cutting a tree.The person who took rest at frequent intervals seemed to finish the work much quicker than the other who continuously worked without any rest.The reason was the person who took frequent rests used such intervals to sharpen the edge of his axle which made his work much easier and quicker.

Any work without smartness will not yield good results.

I think it's important to work both smart and hard if you want to really succeed. If you work smart, you'll finish the job for the day faster and have more free time. But imagine if you also took that time to do more smart work. You'd be able to achieve much more. This of course applies to people having their own business and wanting to grow it. If you're working for someone else, you'll want to work smart not hard. When you work hard, I found that you lose the bigger picture. That is very bad if you're working on your own business. So I found a solution where you would take breaks of half an hour to an hour, where you'd just chill and not focus too hard on anything, while still having the project on your mind. I think this allows the brain to connect the pieces better and often I'll realize something in that almost daydreaming state, that I couldn't realize during focused work.

Now another challenge is if you really, objectively have too much on your plate that you have to work hard and long. In that case you should learn how to delegate. But that's easier said than done, because when you delegate a task, that's only the beginning. Because when that someone finishes the task, you'll have to look over the results to make sure that is good. And oftentimes it won't be. So you'll be left with two options - either fix it yourself, or return it to be fixed, which opens another opportunity for the result to not be what you wanted. If you succeed to balance this delegation mechanism, you are on a clear path to working smart and winning.

PS If you need some motivation to work hard for what you want, check out Gary Vaynerchuk on youtube :)

All I can say for now is that I learned a lot of things because of this topic and your story is such a great inspiration for me since I am a kind of person that I always doubted my skills, my talent and my ability. I am really inspired with what you've shared in order to gain success work hard is not enough rather smart work is more important while we are achieving our dreams and success.

Motivate and having dedication in life can be able to initiate things on bitcoin and can easily understand what is all about. We are more adaptable in every step we focus. As a person both are more useful in this transaction because we will be able to learned quickly and understand well whats the methodical on bitcoin. Work with pride to achieved goals in life .

I would also say that working hard will only make you tired. To be exact we have to be smart in our work to be able to maximize the full potential of each of our talents. Yes, mostly if we work hard we did not get rich but it's our boss who will benefit on it.

Working smart leads you in creating innovative ideas that probably will help you develop your skills and ability. And it will motivate you to work harder because you have goals and dreams.It shows that working hard is not enough but you must also work smarter and you will achieve what you are aiming for. And thanks to this thread I was able to read everyone's thoughts to this matter.

Working hard isn't that bad since you are dedicated to your work. You are giving so much effort in every task that is given to you but working smart is better than working hard. You may not exerting so much effort but you are giving the best idea to make that business or work, better. You are sharing a unique but effective idea in your business and also you may apply it in yourself. And honestly, if you are an HR, you will pick the person who are smarter, maybe they can't be industrious as hardworkers but they can think a best way to make that work easier and thats what conpany and business wants.

As we all know, time is the most precious commodity you have when building your own business. However, if you’re working hard and grinding away at your business day after day, there’s a good chance you’ll burn out. You must first know the difference between working hard vs. working smart. An example, Working hard is working with the 80% of the people in your organization that produce 20% of the results while working smart is working with the 20% of the people who are bringing you 80% of the results. Working hard is reaching out to people one by one through Facebook while working smart is creating one Facebook ad that will reach thousands of people.

These are two different things, and both have a great impact on how we view life. Both aims for common good and goal but differ in quality result. One can be very hardworking but it has one way of doing the job and  does the job without intention  about the result, while working smart aims for always having end result in view, adds value, and has many ways to do the job done. In a cryptoland where uncertainties and fears have taken over, let us work smartly not only for the team but for ourselves.After all, it's not how hard you work but by how much it gets done.

For me , working smart is better, here is an example:

A boss has 2 worker, Tommy the hardworking guy and Alfred the smart worker, the boss ask Tommy and Alfred to look for a nice restaurant in the neighborhood. Without hesitation, Tommy instantly comply and roam around the city, hours later he returns and told his boss he has found a fancy resto 2 bocks away from their office, the boss told Tommy, go and ask if we can reserve a table, the guy quickly rush to the resto and ask if there is an available table for his boss and heads back to the office to report to his boss, the boss says, very good you are such good and hardworking staff.

Then came Alfred, hey boss,  there is a cheaper resto down the alley, i quickly browse the internet and search for the resto Tommy had told you and read a lot of bad ratings and comments from the customers, so ive search other resto and found this cheap resto, they have a high ratings and a promo if we reserved early this morning you will get a free bottle of champaign. So i reserved a table for you sir to avail the promo.

Good job Alfred.

Even the two guy did a good job, we can say Alfred outwitted Tommy, 

Why choose between them, if you can have both working smart while working hard. This means you are focus on your work because you are working smart while working hard and in the end you will become successful.

In the beginning you will have to work hard only to arrange some money. Thereafter, it is time to act smart by making that money work for you.

Working smart is more on using the brain and less utilizing the body because this is the conditioning of our mental toughness to make us more sucessful.

For sure it is very important to be very smart using bitcoin, if you will work hard only and not have proper plan for it then it will be useless, so you are right it is very important to be smart as well. Invest at the time of fallen price and try to hold it very long which will give you profit, earning in bitcoin is very easy but you will have to wait and let bitcoin price get high so a wise and smart mind person must know all these things and they can make very high profit from bitcoin, and will never suffer lose.

I would like to draw here the comparison between these tow related to the market. Working hard is like reading every move of the market on hourly basis and checking the graph and the worth on hourly basis with the predictions and working smart means that you can rely on the work of other financial groups who are more professional than you and then you can make the decisions on that, so whatever you choose make sure that it is accurate and good for your business.

It doesn't come down just to earning huge income while getting there with less effort. Rather, as I come to think of it, working smart can be conceptualized as achieving some desired outcome doing nothing altogether in the limit, likely even as an off-target effect of a series of other off-target effects. On the other hand, working hard is the opposite of working smart (which is kinda obvious, huh), and in the limit means doing everything and still getting nothing. To me, this is where lies the great divide between working smart versus working hard.

We often hear from older people, "study hard so that you can have a good future".In this sense, it is applicable to say that in studying,you should work hard in order to be smart. In some cases, the other one can be applied but also in some cases,there are instances that both are applied. I believe every successful person now that came from rags to riches are hard working, they cannot be rich if they are not hard working so being smart is not enough. Working smart is like doing things in much efficient way,where you can save time to do something more important, effiency is a key word here. Working smart also inclues opportunity seeking, they grab every opportunity so that they can be richer.My opinion is it is a combination of the two in order to achieve success. One does not simply work hard without even thinking smart.

I do strongly believe in working smart to working hard. Here in my country, a lot doing the 8-5 office work have been doing the working hard. And I see a lot not doing office work earning quite much more than the office workers. Even making a comparison of site labourers and office workers too is another example of working hard and working smart. Now that we have machines available, it is important that works are done smartly and save time and optimize efficiency.

It is very important to act smart in modern times. I see a lot of my friends just doing their boring jobs and being exploited by their company. Many of them are quite talented and can really earn huge money by starting pout their own ventures. But it is hard for them to think out of box and take risks. I was also stuck with a job that paid pennies. I worked on my communication skills, applied in a reputed company and was hired for 5 times the salary.

You have to be smart to figure out how to work smart. And many smart people do try to put themselves in optimal situations.

You have to work hard to be successful man in your life.
If you work hard in the young age,you can live your old age piece with huge money in your hand and you are no need to depend on others.
Many had became millionaire by this hard work.So I think it's better to work hard than work smart.

For me both are needed, working hard and working smartly because if you don't have those capabilities you cannot do your job well. It is our way to be succesful in our assign task.

You need to be same being smart and you need hard work. In this earth that two is important because as of now is hard to earn money so need to be smart and hard work will be follow. Being smart,hard working and being strategic are all people need to be successful in life.

Practically,working smart is the right thing to do,yes we all wanted to succeed in life but i think we must be smart enough to achieve it.Its right that we have to stick around places where we get higher chances to succeed and get out from our comfort zone.Just like my experience,i am working too hard and be the best employee a company could ever had,for 13 long years i don't see such changes.Salary was not enough most especially now that im already married with my kids.Inorder to sustain their need ,I need to borrow money from anyone i know with interest.I need to prioritize their needs than mine,but now that i knew bitcoin i wanted to be out of my comfort zone and try another alternative ways to earn as an additional income.As when i able to earn i will probably invest my money outside crypto inorder to have other alternative source of income.

Interest is an important thing which you need to have in whatever work you are doing. I think of working smartly to be much more important thing than that of working hard. It is because of the reason that if you had used up your mind in the best possible manner and that you have come up with the best possible solution of doing that work, then it will not be much difficult for you to do that job and that you will be able to complete that without putting enough efforts.

I think I will go for both working hard and working smart because are both applicable in man daily lives but it the area where you make use of it that matters.There fore, ones need the require instinct, skill and knowledge in other to use it right.

This is a tough question, the answer to which we can't know in advance in many if not most cases. If you ask me, in hindsight I often come to understand that I spent many hours, days, and even weeks doing useless stuff that didn't pay back or didn't pay back as much as I had first expected and hoped for. It makes an interesting case to the effect that it didn't matter how smart or how hard I worked since it was all mainly in vain. So before starting off on a working smart journey, make sure first that you are on the right road.

Yeah, everyone is born with their own pros and cons and there is no one who has the perfection as an asset or a trait. As far as working smart is concerned, it is the demand of present world where everything happens in the matter of seconds and you don’t have often enough time to handle situations. For that, you need to smart and quick. Hard working teaches you smartness as well.

Yeah, you're right, it is just your opinion. And your choice at the end of the day, after all. Though I don't know how working hard will lead you to working smart. Personally, I see no causal arrow pointing in that direction. In my opinion, working hard will only lead you to exhaustion and burnout. Anyway, there are quite a few people working hard like rats on a running wheel, and they are essentially where they started at, living paycheck-to-paycheck. Ironically, the only advantage they are able to obtain via working hard through years is being eligible to take out a loan in a bank. And then work even harder to pay it back.

It is the demand of the fast moving market and the world that things should be done in a smart way utilizing minimum energy and time. Those days are gone when people were paid for the hard work they had done, now people are appraised based on their smartness and innovations. Those who work hard, it is not like they stop working hard. Work hard but in a smart way. This can make impossible even possible.

I agree with this, it will be a lot harder to figure out how to work smarter if you do not have any experience trying to work harder, as they say the necessity is the mother of all invention, how are you going to create a way to do something in a more efficient manner if you do not have hands on experience in your field of work? This is why working hard goes hand in hand with working smarter, only after having years of experience doing something you will get insight about the ways to improve the process and tools of your trade.

Working hard and working smart must be together and for me i would rather select working smart because in my experience working smartly means working with confidence you love what you are doing and thinking of the possibilities to become more successful in life you don't depend on what the managers want you to do because it's the only task given to you, you have the decision and tactics on how your business lead to success that's what smart worker can do.

Working hard means working 8 hours a.day just to have your salary at the end of the month no goals to achieve just work hard for the promotion unlike working smart you have your own strategy on how to manage your time and effort and also the ways on how to earn more and to make your business more successful to attain your goal in life.

Both working smartly and work hard is good to have. We all know that bitcoin is more on investment and doing job, so it is important to work smartly because you need to have quality post to achieve it you should have the knowledge and be wise in your decision.

Working hard will not always be a guarantee to make you rich because you will only make your boss richer. But it's different when you work hard for a business that you, yourself is the boss. I guess hardwork pays off if you own the business yourself and the effort you've made for that business is well worth it, when your the one to gain it all. Also working smarter is just doing hard task simple and faster. Therefore both is useful when working on something.

Your method of work is really great. I would choose to work smarter than working hard. But if I want to make more money than I have to work hard. That means working selectively and focusing on that choice. I have read the 80/20 Rulebook and learned how to do the best job for me.

I of course prefer being smart than any other options. Working smart + working hard wins though but we are only to pick one here. Smart people always find ways for an easier route with the same results or maybe even better or slightly behind but compared to the effort then it is worth it.

Working smart and working hard is a different way, working smart for me is better than to those who work hard. Those who work hard can just earn but don't earn knowledge and strategies, those who work in a smart way can earn money and at the same time, knowledge and strategies.

        We can merely quantify of a working hard, as a matter of exerting effort to your work or a dedication towards work just to meet your goal. while working smart is sometimes it's a matter of a good decision that resulting a good outcome. Like for example in a basketball game, if you pass the ball to an open teammate and he got the basket then you're working smart on particular situation but if you work hard to the basket which playing one on one and also got a score so it's a working hard.
        

Yes, we need to find situations like where we need to work hard and where we need to work smarter. The situation will be demanding this. But, it is very much necessary for anyone to know on different types of hard-working. All hard working does not need our physical efforts but our mental work also could be classified as smart work.

Working smarter, not harder, is an age-old adage. If you master the concept, your entire working life will be easy to practice the smart. Therefore ahe simple techniques that you can employ to save steps and tedium from almost any. But  like  harwork is  motivational and inspiration from creators, achievers, entrepreneurs, authors, heroes, and others who provide inspiration and example among the people practice about how to hard faster.

I understand what you mean but look at it from a different angle. For example, you think that sometimes you have to work hard, and probably you should, yet you are not working smart because you are not smart enough for this kind of work and not because it is impossible per se. As I said earlier, the ultimate working-smart approach, a Holy Grail of working smart of sorts, consists in achieving what you want by doing nothing, and still better by doing something else.

Yeah its sad but true. is it creative work the same as smart work? sometimes I feel sad with someone who work in office from morning till night only earn a small income? whereas artists who work creatively on a television generate enormous money in a short time? or smart work by utilizing their skills to make big profits like designers, photographers, and so on

Working smart and working hard must go hand in hand. You should know when to apply each characteristic. For example you have to work smart in laboratory with so many apparatus. But you may have to work hard and stay many nights awake to gather results of your experiment, clearly not a lazy man's job to do. You can't be smart forever and you can't work hard forever.

It is better working smart than working hard and achieving nothing in what one is doing that is this the ultimate goal to achieve anything in life

First of all as a hard worker we only get that salary alone, while smart workers will get more salary than he expected. Be an intelligent and hardworking person who will make you happy later, do not be lazy.

Yep, that looks like a worthy comment. You should always try to build and expand your social network of people who may help you in the future, and, at the same time, you should of course be particular about whom you keep friendship with. There is a wisdom which says you can't be friends with the whole world, otherwise you are indiscriminate in your connections (or something to that tune).

Most will suggest you to work hard to achieve in job and as well as future.I think you have to work hard and learn what is the work and then make a move to get a smart steps to complete the same work.After that you can work smart to achieve the goal.

I think you're wrong. In order for a person to work intelligently, he must learn a lot. You say it has to work a lot. Work takes a lot of time and effort. In such circumstances, it is impossible to obtain a quality education. While we are young, it seems to us that studying does not give us anything, but takes away the opportunity to get paid. Only with age do we understand that it is not, but it's too late.

I agree with everyone's comments that success comes fact by working smart than working hard.But one thing is to keep in mind that when a person can do a smart job,he gets a lot of experience by doing a lot of research.Must be diligent to be smart.And diligence is associated with hard work.So in my opinion, there is a need to hard work to be smart.

It is not just a question of opposing hard work to the smart one.
There are objectives to be achieved, and sequences of necessary actions.
Sometimes the smartest thing is to work hard.

Hi,

Luck is not everything.

Being smart is not everything.

Having a great family environment is important.

Working hard is not enough, and may not give the results you expect.

I tend to disagree with this approach. In short, as it seems to me, you make a wrong distinction. Effective means fulfilling your task in full and likely on time. This is what makes you reliable and trustworthy. But both working smart and working hard get there in the end. Efficient means you finish your job in a most optimal way, therefore if there is a difference between your working tactics, it lies in how efficient you are at tackling specific problems, while effective is apparently the common denominator here.

The point of action is to reach the goal in the most economical way.
Sometimes, trying to be smart, you lose a lot more time and you risk not getting anything.
So maybe it's not about work hadr vs work smart, but simply about work right.

Your reference to carrying a heavy box to another place reminds me of a one-liner that women often repeat in these quarters. Basically, they say there are two types of men, those who can bring up a washing machine to the fifth floor themselves and those who can hire somebody to do that for them. And there is a third type which can do neither.


Trying to be smart is evidently not the same as being smart.

This can be applicable to anything but if you are looking for a promotion in a job it will depend on your bosses on who they see is worthy to be promoted and sometimes the hard worker is the one who gets promoted as he sees him working his ass off for the company. But there are other bosses where he sees smart workers as intelligent people that can be proven valuable to the company, but it will depend on the interpretation of the one who will promote you. Sometimes just showing that you want the position as well as you show your dedication to the company is enough.

I don't think you can choose both at the same time since working smart is doing the same stuff as working hard, so you can do your work in either smart or hard way. Further, you ask if you don't work hard then how you can earn more money if you just work smart. To me, this is a meaningless question because you get the job done in both of these cases, only using different approaches. And finally, it makes sense to promote those who work smart just because they are smart. It seems to me pretty straightforward.

Since Bitcoin deals with financial sector I would like to highlight Robert Kiyosaki cashflow concept on this topic. According to the best selling Author Robert Kiyosaki, 90% people are trapped in the rat race and their continuously busy in doing hard work but they forget that they are working for those 10% people who are working in a smart way. I would like to promote his book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" and I recommend everyone to read it to understand how the society is working right now on the financial level. Two things are extremely important time and financial freedom but we will need money for the same.

an interesting idea, and I am also thinking the same thing. hard work is certainly okay but it will just be made ourselves just focused on the work and not thinking ourselves regarding health, rest and vacation time. But if you already use smart work system then all that will be overcome because it could set the all time be it for work and for yourself.

Seeking and finding a way for us to do job as easy as possible would help us to deal with our job faster and more efficient in the future. And the right thing to do this is by having enough experience in particular thing that could provide us knowledge that we could used in our daily activities and help us to smartly do job and task for us to earn and learn at the same process with ease.

once they said that the smart money will not work, so it is very difficult today to talk about what the smart does in fact. Apparently if a person is engaged in a crypto currency, then he is smart, and can make good money.

In my opinion, if you want to have success in your life, then you must do both the things at the very same time. you cannot just rely on either of them to have what all you want to have in your life. The best thing which can help you in gaining success is to plan the things smartly and wisely and then work hard to execute that plan in the best possible way, thus resulting greater profit.

Personally, I don't think it is the right approach to distinguish between hard work as mostly physical and smart work as mostly intellectual, though it should be clear that when your work involves physical part, for example, as a mover, there is not much you can do with it, I mean, doing it in a smarter way. So we are basically left with intellectual work involving your brain, and that's where most of the distinction should be made between working hard and working smart since you can use your intelligence in a smart or dumb way.

working smart vs working hard.. much better if you do it at the same time so that the outcome is successful .. and do with it with love and positive thinking too..

working hard without being smart is a waste of effort, you will just be on your work for the rest of your life.

You need to be smart, a smart worker will give importance to his/her job in such a wise and perfect outcome,
always have time with the family and thinking on what is better and what is right to do.

We hunters are being smart here, that is why we are getting better in life.

This is correct, that is why we must always strive to try to start our own business and to be our own boss you need to understand that your boss doesn't pay you because he likes to do charity, he pays you to do a job and if he wants to remain in business he needs to pay you less than what you are producing, so you need to make an effort to create your own business it doesn't matter if it is not the most glamorous as long as it gives you money then you can employ the strategy of working hard and obtain and retain all the benefits for yourself.

practical take on working smart... umm...gotta think about this in that way...sounds interesting pretty much. I have always believed in working smart rather than hard. It has stronger implications than working hard. In the contemporary times, it's good for everyone that they explore and find out new methods to work smart and save their much valued tie in doing something constructive that can get them faster returns.

So from my life experience i can say that it's always better to focus on smart working rather than hard working.

For me working smart is a kind of strtegy that you have a kind of technique that make fastly and unique.And in terms of working hard this kind of aspects will create you more patient to strive hard.

by working smarter we spend less energy. and there will be more things we can do. and of course this will make our income become larger.

Working hard and working smart is both a positive attitude one should have. An individual who works hard will definitely achieve what he/she is aiming for so as the one working smart. But for me the one working smart will achieve more than the one working hard. And the one who works hard and smart will surely go far than the one working smart or the working hard.

I agree with that, but for me, you cant separate working smart and working hard, working smart is determining whwther a certain strategy will work but the application will fall on working hard for you to achieve the goal, working smart is just for a boss and when you combined the two you can be called a leader who can do the task of his own employee which was missing if you are a boss.

Yes that’s true, but sometimes you have to work hard to achieve some things. What I’m trying to say is that despite it is very important to think smart, you might come up with some ideas that requires you to work really hard before you can accomplish them. You don’t just think smart and relax, waiting for you ideas to put themselves into work and put food on your table, nah, that’s never gonna happen. You will need to work for your ideas. Well, working smart.

Being intelligent will be a good news signaler for future. In addition, intelligent processing will be beneficial to ourselves in certain business divisions and will not cause us to stay away from tiring jobs. If it is too much, too heavy and too much to handle, we will not be able to go further than an activity that will wear us down and will not be a journalist in a good career. When the two shapes are combined, it is difficult to predict the consequences of the right strategy.

IMO, working smart doesn't work all the time. It will still vary depending on your situation. Most of the times, working smart really pays-off your cause but in some cases working hard is much better than working smart. For example. let's say at work, you are assigned to work on a presentation where you must make it as good and as informative as possible. You work smark in a way that you ask your workmate to help you with the presentation and asked him/her for some ideas about but both your ideas don't match up with one another and in the end, you end up working longer for that presentation as what it supposed it should be. On the contrary, if you work hard for it in the beginning and thought well as to how you can make your presentation meets the requirements, you'll definitely have a concrete idea and finished it at a shorter time.

Well, in the OP's standpoint, I think what he means in working smart is that you will find ways to make your work easier than what it supposed it should be. I mean, you will do things that will benefit you in the process and remove any hard task along the way. You will still work but with a strategic plan to make it simple as possible.

That's a good example but not so much about working hard as about working dumb, which is kind of markedly worse. Everyone knows that working at McDonalds should be considered only a temporary or side job, for example, when you are a student and don't have rich parents ready to shell out on your education. No matter how hard you work there, you won't get anything above the minimum people are earning at the place on average.

Being smart and being hardworking because those are positive attributes of a person. Working smart means you can come up with a better and new ideas that you will be working hard.

The best thing we should do to success in our own field is to combine both of it. Working smart is just working efficiently without any hassle. You are working without putting your all force but you are earning a lot. Yet it is good to work smarter, success can't achieve without having a dedication to your work. Work harder keeps us to push beyond our limits so that, we are developing time by time. Aside from that, work harder promotes us to become endured when it comes in difficulties. If you have enthussiasm with your work, you have the eagerness to make it more successful. That's why we need also the virtue of a hard worker person.

At first you would be working hard because you don't know yet what are the things you should do to make your work easier. Take for example being an employee of a restaurant. In the beginning, you are not familiar with the practices involved and you work hard to know every thing and then you got promoted in which case, you will know more abut how to run the business. Later on, you would know what to do and decided to build your own restaurant given that you already have the capital and you have connections as well because of your previous job. You hired employees to work for you so you are not working that hard anymore. You are already working smart earning more income but having lesser work.

If you ask me, working smart is far more better than working hard. It is true that working hard can get you somewhere, but if you work smart it can get you further. Working smart means carefully analyzing every situation to save time, effort and too much work, but at the same time earn as well. One can still have extra while doing it.

I was about to pint out this thing. We need both attributes in life to be successful from every angle. If the person is hard working but not smart, again it is going to cost him much of the time and other resources to meet the deadlines. On the contrary, if the person is just focusing on being smart and not paying any attention on working hard, he or she is again going to suffer because simply buy understanding things, you cannot score well, you need to grasp them by hard working.

Well yes you are right here that one can’t go with both at the same time but I think this is the trend now to go for both at same time. If someone have will power and concern to do something extraordinary in this time, he or she must be doing hard work but smartly. Because if you don’t have smartness, others will take anything uplift and you are there with nothing. So be competitive, do hard but smart.

I think people can work both smart and hard at the same time though. It's a combination that would most likely spell success if you develop skills on how to do both. It's going to make you very efficient in whatever you're trying to accomplish and successful people i think are.able to do that

working smart i think is a work that use strategy, so it can be effective in taking steps and obtain maximum results. working hard is nonstop work to achieve maximum results. i prefer working smart to earning maximum income

If you want to be successful in the long run, you have to put long hours into work. You have to start early, before all other people, and you have to stay up late, when everyone else is already enjoying their afternoons and evenings.

you're right, working hard and working smart it's different, a smart person will choose to do his own business rather than being an employee, the income earned is also much different because smart people will look for the latest innovations to earn more profit

Beautifully said. Work hard sounds time consuming but again huge researches and data that have been compiled and with the help of which we can work smart were hard works. You can not really rely on one. If we talk about the leading companies of the world like IPhone or Google, they give us the lesson of both hard work and smart work.

Nokia work very hard but this element of smartness was just not in their schedule and that is why the company was forced out of the market though they had done nothing wrong.

This is quite relevant. Working smart is what we gained by working hard at first. Because working hard gives us a lot of experiences in many successful things that we are doing before and makes us working smart because we experienced it already on how to do it well timely. Both abilities are ultimate guide to be a successful individual.

That's a very interesting observation, good for you. It reminds me of a saying which is attributed to Abraham Lincoln who asked to give him six hours to chop down a tree and he would spend the first four sharpening the axe. The lesson to take home is that before fully engaging in your working activity, think first how you can make the job in the most efficient way so that you wouldn't waste hours or even days doing what can be done with less effort and in a shorter time span.

if I myself choose smart work too, because the intelligent work it uses mind instead of using muscle. so it's better to work smart by managing our minds to be even more.

In my opinion, hard working and the potential negative effects of it can be found everywhere. With wage labor, however, it becomes clear and evident without further explanation, kind of obvious. But it doesn't mean that if you are working hard for yourself only, you will fare much better. The point is when you work for the boss, it is your boss who takes the smart work from you and does it himself. But when you are your own boss, then you have to work smart by default if you want to stay in the business.

I think working smart comes with having lots of peace of mind... in a world full of perturbations, there seems to be little time for brain storming, for refreshing yourself, coming clean plate...
This happened in my experience. I gained some success, only to be dragged back by some people, or so called "interference" negativity.  

Practical way would be to educate yourself on your own lessons... make peace with yourself, getting at the wheel of your own destiny. Gain awareness. Always "doing" something does not always bring success. Right decisions can bring the right chances (more luck, too) in life.  


Ps. I thought people go on tinder for One. S ;)


My two cents.

I understand what you want to say here but I disagree with you and agree with the other poster who said that working smart is in a sense harder that plain working hard. Working smart always requires you to move out of your comfort zone, requires you to think out of the box, and that can be quite painful and distressing psychologically. On the other hand, when you are working hard, you most likely remain in your comfort zone at all times, you quickly get used to your work, and can even work a couple of extra hours a day. Something which will definitely please your boss, and he will likely even praise you for it, though without financially rewarding you beyond your typical hourly pay, if at all.

Working hard is allways easier, there is no need to thing a lot here. Just do your job, and repeat. On the smart-work side, sometimes, you would look, seek, think, analyze and only then start to work. But smart value is always higher, than hard

For sue smart worker can get more profit with ease and without getting any harm, bitcoin is very easy to get profit but if you have a smart mind,  holding bitcoin can give you lots of profit as for it you will not have to work hard but you will have to plan smart as buy when you see the price of bitcoin is low and have proper planning not to sell till it gets high once again, at the same time hard working is also important but I think smart mind can get more profit than hard working mind.

Ofcourse working smart there are so many people right now that are working and working without knowing the benefits of that work or even how they can easily make or create some income without working that much. being smart is a gift make it work.

I think if you have the opportunity to work smart and effective then do it.
Leave your hard work.
If we can find a smart job and we love the job you will certainly have time for you to enjoy and will certainly make your life happy and will be away from stress.

It is better to work smart than working hard. Working hard , yes it is important in taking a job. You have a possibility that you will be hired in a particular job if you have this characteristic. But it is more important to work smart because you have many ideas to make your work easier but perfectly.

In current times, if someone is not a smart person, believe me he doesn’t has any place in the world. Now, people become so sharp that they don’t allow anyone to surpass them. So in case you want to extend your professionalism or work, you need to be smart and hard worker. These both attributes can help you take the mark and if even one is missing, you are just ruined up person.

it's true especially in the work, the most priority and be a bullet in the work of course smart in thinking and working hard in order to realize that in want it is very necessary. being intelligent and persistent in the work is very important

To me I think both are needed. You can't go beyond yourself without working hard enough. And also you won't get the success without smart move.
Suppose you work in a restaurant. You work hard full day and earn a little bit more than the others. Suddenly you saw that one of you colleague resigned. If it's possible then you can also look after that post. As a result of which you will get extra money and also you will gained the trust of you boss. But yes I don't support hard working over your limits. I think if you can then you must work hard but also with smart moves. Because I personally think that both of them depends on each others.

I believe by working smartly according to your idea that. but smart is not enough if you do not work hard in it, you understand what I mean ?, just because you work smart you can not laze in your work, so smart work must be accompanied by hard work.

some people doesn't lucky so they have to working more hard to make living indeed if you're an employee working hard only makes your boss richer and richer again because you only get monthly salary from them but will be different if you're building your own business and working hard for it i think eventually you will be rich people without depend other people

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yes, that's the point I tried to emphasize in my previous post here and even added it to my piggy bank (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3151876.msg32574387#msg32574387) 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 understand that the difference between working smart and working hard may be subtle and hard (pardon the pun) to see and establish but more generally producing more with less or in a less amount of time doesn't count as working smart. You may just get more efficient or skilled with time but you would be still working hard because nothing changes in a major way. You would still be following the same routine. It is pretty much like overclocking your processor or using a faster one from the same family or of the same core architecture. On the other hand, working smart involves changing your whole approach to what you do in a radical, fundamental way.

Working smart and working hard is almost the same and both are need when you enter a job. You can be a successful if you do both. But I think the most important among the teo is working smart. You have lots of idea to make your work easier which is really need in some business.

yes I think you are, because these two things are very contradictory. Because working hard will not get the results commensurate with the work and the work we do, but if we work smart we will get the results commensurate with our work because the work of smart encouraging we are to go forward and succeed for the future.

I would like to work with smart than to work hard although both working smart and working hard are important in entering a job because it is what the company really need. Working smart is you giving your opinion, knowledge and ideas on how to make your work easy and not just easy you are also share your skills.

It is very much difficult for you to differentiate between working harder and that of working smarter. There is only a slight difference in between both and that I think so that you need to do things smartly as well as you need to put in enough of efforts too so that you may then be able to make things happen in the way you wanted. You can’t rely on either of the thing in any way.

I'm inclined to think that the main difference is not what you feel regarding your work effort yourself (though this is important too) but rather what the common opinion is about what you are doing. If you are a road worker like those paving and surfacing laborers, everyone and his grandma would think that you are working very hard for the buck you get. But if you are, for example, a real trader, and I mean a real one, not of the type who consider themselves "professional traders" but are just pathetic losers in life, everyone will think you are earning easy money cause you are working smart as far as smartness goes.

People have a specific movements. The person who is as smart as his job is as beautiful change fortune maternity Without the outcome of life, improving the life does not improve, on the other hand, smart increases the speed of his work. The more smart people, the higher they can work for. So working hard working smart vs working hard - an ultimate guide

Actually, I quite like your comparison since I've been thinking along the same lines myself. With that said, though, this analogy is not always applicable to real life cases. For example, working smart may mean dumping your nasty work for as nasty a boss and switching to something which is more rewarding in all or many aspects (financially, intellectually, spiritually, whatever). Obviously, the latter case doesn't fit your definition very well because it is essentially outside its scope. Strictly speaking, that wouldn't even count as working smart, but we all think of this as a wise decision anyway (provided you succeed with your effort, of course).

I don't quite agree that working smart necessarily involves taking risks, but I agree that you should make decisions on your own. And I agree that you should be smart in the first place, but if you don't pretend to be smart and thus claim to yourself you kind of deserve smart working, that shouldn't be an issue. If you don't put yourself in this artificial mindset, working smart will come about organically provided you are really capable of it, of course.

Keeping in view, Bitcoin knowledge is the most important thing. Working smart and hard both are necessary but with knowledge. We should not overcome one on another because working smart can works out in some places and working hard works out in some places. So, overcoming of one on another is not valid. Bitcoin needs knowledge, you do not have to work smart and work hard. Regardless of working hard and smart one can get successes in getting profit from Bitcoin with knowledge.

I tend to disagree with this view. There is a saying circulating on the Internet which says that whatever you try to do has already been tried and it didn't work out (or something to that tune). And I think it can be rephrased as whatever worked out for others will likely work out for you too. So I don't consider it working hard if you follow someone's lead in working smart. Whether you actually succeed at reproducing the success of others by following their steps is a different question, though. But I see nothing wrong with that as long as you know and understand what you are doing.

I think you should combine both.  This is the key to success. You need to be smart, work hard and also have a little luck. Do not expect a good result if you are not hard-working or if you do not do your job wisely.

Best thing to do is to work both smart and hard!

Yes i agree with you, work in the company then save money out of your salary, build your own company even not big a company and now your the boss of your company you can do what you want, you have all the profit.

Well, personally, I think this approach is too straightforward and a bit too narrow-minded. In other words, you can also enjoy life while working for a multinational corporation. You just need to have enough rank there so that hard-working people at lower and lowest ranks would work for you. I know that many people here dream of having their own business but every coin has two sides. When you work for yourself, you take all the risks on yourself too, while working in a big company may in fact be a better option unless you are going to start your own big company (and succeed at that).

But if you are really passionate, then quit your job and take the plunge!

The issue with the working hard versus working smart polarity is that very frequently wdecision as one in which we can just pick "hard" or "smart." The inquiry we ought to ask is, the reason aren't we doing both?

Shockingly, there is no alternative however to work hard in a startup. Some of the time because of the unstructured idea of work in startup one may wind up concentrating on handling the prompt needs while losing the concentration from long haul objectives.

It is not just about the current generation or any other specific generation. As a matter of fact, it is about any generation because this has been the case since the inception of civilization and the beginning of time. Every generation tries to outsmart a previous one by inventing all possible ways to make their life easier. This is what basically drives the advancement of new technology. It is even believed that the rate of this advancement is increasing with time, which means the smartness differential between generations is rising.

Or it was so till the advent of Internet and social networks with all the implications they brought about.

yes, because they are the perfect blend of hard work and intelligent thinking there will be a gap for success.

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Luck and the opportunities it offers are what we should never forget of, the point which I specifically highlight in the OP. Sometimes, in fact, oftentimes, luck is what radically changes our life. Truth to be told, it is exactly because of luck that we as individual persons came into this world having been chosen by it from around a billion of other "candidates", so, in a sense, we were all born under a lucky star via our very existence. And if our life started with luck, we shouldn't discard it during our lifetime either. Discarding luck would be as stupid as relying just on it alone, but in the end (as well as in the beginning, for that matter) it all comes down to luck.

For me, obvious thing is that you alway can transfer one case into another. Hardwork can almost always be transormed into smartwork. so think about it.

I believe also in that "luck" thing in our lives which we do really have a significant effect or do give outcomes which we wont even expect. Missing out opportunities aren't really good in any way.Just try and try until we hit on what we aim for.Comparing working smart and working hard, eventually you can able to create ideas later on when you do make hard work where sooner or later you will realize that you will able to get the job done into more convenient and easy way.

I understand what you mean by working hard here but for the sake of simplicity and better understanding of the differences between the two, I think we should rather specify working hard as doing the same thing again and again probably putting more effort into your job but without thinking too much over it. With time, you can become more efficient and likely do more but that alone won't make your work any smarter. As Albert Einstein allegedly said, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. So working hard can't take you any closer to working smart on its own.

If we want to be successful, we shouldn't be content to simply work smarter. The most successful people work smart, but they also work exceptionally hard. They maintain the same level of persistence and drive while learning ways to do things more efficiently. If you want to be successful, you have to be smart, work hard and also have a bit of luck.

Well in order to succeed you need to work hard and be smart as well. If your goal is to be rich then dont be contented as an employee, that's how being smart comes in by thinking better ideas to improve your status. Build your own business, its the first step if you're aiming to be rich someday, it wont be easy but if you're smart you will find ways for everything to go smoothly. Then if things go as planned its time to work hard for your own benefit. Well its not going to be easy but if you have guts to step in, you can bring this to reality.

Sometimes work smart because experience. But it is true that if we want to be succesfull man, being smart is number one and being lucky is because we already done we have do. Result always following our efforts

Both working smart and working hard are good in a particular business. Working smart , so you can give some ideas or knowledge which might help the business to grow. And working hard so that the task will be finished on time. But I prefer to work smart than working hard because you have the ability to think the easiest way to finished what task has been given in you excellently.

For explaining about working hard vs working smart tons of example are available in daily life. You might be viewing all those but never notice or may be your perception is different about that. In short way, working hard means you are taking a long time to produce good results, and working smart means you are taking a short way and give good results.

Working hard without thinking your health would probably useless therefore I must prefer in working smart. Working with proper and right decision shows that your working smart and of course taking good care of yourself while working is also working smart. Most of all you are working not just about the welfare of yourself butost especially you are working because of the welfare of your surroundings.

Working smart and working hard. It should be done at the same time. What I mean is that, yes it is good to be working smart or working hard. But what if you do both in bitcoin. Surely you will do great and will have a great profit in time. Because for me working hard but not working smart is useless because if you are not smart enough to do your work you will fail. Also vice versa. That is why for me, working hard and working smart are like partners. You should do it both at the same time.

Most brilliant post I've seen in a long time. Working smart > working hard.
Sometimes you've gotta work hard to be smart in situations though...  ;)

Based on my opinion working hard or working smart one goal to achieve success. But from their working steps I think it's a very different way but one goal. It describes a person who works with thinking in a relaxed way with good results, and the other uses a bit of thought but with morale to get results. I will choose smart work.

I think, that between working hard and working smart, I will choose working smart and by this, I mean find easier and faster way, what will be more productive for the resolving same task. Like for example, there a task on what worker will spend around ~3 hours, I will try to find an alternative way to do the same task, but for 1 - 1.5 hour.

The essential now to be able to survive challanges in life is to be smart in all means, work smart you can never go rong with that. Working hard is not stretching your full potential in executing things. But working smart take a lot of focus and good strategies in order to be efficient and more productive in achieving better work results.

For me, working smart is better than working hard. let's say if you have a work that you need to finish in just 24 hours. you should probably work hard to finish it. but if you work smart, you should probably get some help from one or two of your who has knowledge about your work. in that way, you can meet the deadline without working so much. this is only my point of view.

Working hard can be a good thing but I don't think that would be enough to get you through here successful in bitcoin. Working smart will be more adviseable than working hard because being smart can help you find a good way to earn and to avoid any possible loss caused by frauds and scammers. Always be smart and wise in everything you're doing here so you can benefit the most.

Working smart is much needed here in bitcoin. There are too many things you need to learn and understand here before you can make lots of money. If you are going to be smart here, a lot of good things will surely come up to you. Working hard can also be a good thing but if its mixed up with being smart, chances that you will be very successful with your investments here will increase.

In my opinion, to achieve accomplishment, good job in the job. It requires a lot of problems to bring success. How do you work smart without virtue or style, good communication in the work. Success-> make a lot of money-> this is not necessarily true.
Or will you work hard all your life without anyone seeing and utilizing and praising your efforts? not necessarily. Each person is always oriented towards perfection or a harmonious combination of elements in the work. It is the best thing to achieve success and success in society. But it is not easy.
You feel born and learn is a waste?

You are right that working hard is sometimes gives you nothing but a mediocre fruit and so being smart is necessary. But I dont think that working smarter is greater than working hard, a smart work becomes just completely smart if it is together with working hard. I believe someone could be a working hard person but never smart but I don't believe the totality of someone as a smart worker without working it hard.

I would go with working smart on this, as long as I;m fully aware that I'm doing
my job at an utmost capacity to not overlook anything that might put me in
a tight spot. But to achieve a very successful and lucrative spot, working smart
and hard would eventually propel and prepare you to better opportunities.

And the difference if  you are working hard, although you are already expert in your job but there is still no assurance for success, because sometimes you need to prove yourself for a long time that you are a trusted person unlike here in cryptocurrency if you already knew what you are doing then you could be rich in just short expand of time with no boss.

I think you should work smart not hard .
We could see so many people working hard everyday just to support their life or family,
And are they earning enough?
They are working more than 9 hours a day and their salary is just enough for them to survive .
And there are some who ate working smart who are only working for a short time a day and still earning more than a regular wage earner.

I think the definition of working smart is not about allocating more time to doing a job. Working smart is an effort to balance the whole line of life so that it will bring a positive impact on productivity. So.. The essence of working smart is how we can be more productive in a short time.

Working hard means exert all the effort to finish your job, while working smart means making your work easier in a more effective and efficient manner. Combine this two and surely you will reach your goal easily.   

Working hard will not make you grow because you are just doing the same thing all over and over again while working to become even more smarter will make you improve on your work and you will grow at the same time.

I don’t believe so. If someone has high goals in life, then there are no shortcuts for rising that much. Working smart and working hard simultaneously will help a person to embark on big achievements. It is said that, “hard work beats talent when talent does not work hard” and this indeed is true my friend. Living in a smart world demands even more hard work to compete with the evolving world.

I would really like to find out what you mean by working hard in trading. Care to explain? I'm more inclined to think that the whole concept of "working" in the sense the term is used here is not applicable to trading. In trading, you are either earning or losing. This is the most important thing. If the way you trade can be called "smart" but you are still losing, does it really matter?


Working hard is a waste of life, and this simple truth you should learn in the cradle. What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave.

These two factors is very good because this is the best way needed in working here. You need to study, research and read so you will get knowledge and idea about whats happening here and easily you will become smartest then it is also needed a hardworking because if don't do this your ideas and knowledge will be useless so much better if you do this things.

Indeed, I am agree with your opinion. People will start hard working first before they get experience and knowledge. After working hard, people will realize they can not make maximum income and they will find a way to success and make a smart plan.
I think hard work and smart work at same times can double our effort to reach success.

First, you need to choose the most suitable job for you, and then you need to do a large amount of this work to make more money.

There is a slightly difference in between working harder and working smarter and that rest all of it is very much like each other. It is very much difficult to make a choice amongst both and that you need to do both the things to achieve what all you want to have in your life. You need to use your brain to make smarter strategies and then put in your best to do the best possible thing.

I think that as a hard worker, we only get this salary, while smart workers get more salary than he expected. Be a smart person, it will make you happy later.

Essentially, I agree with the part about the wealthy people, that they are not in reality that smart as many seem to assume. In many cases, they had just been lucky enough to be born into wealth, and there is a tremendous difference between such people and those who actually earned their fortunes with their hands or brains, either smart or hard way. It is often said that the first generation earns the wealth, the second generation spends it, and the third generation blows it. So wealthy people, and especially those people who are rich through inheritance, may actually be dumber than those who eagerly aspire to become wealthy and consciously act toward their goal. The latter are forced to be tougher mentally and thus more driven.

And it is not uncommon for the people hired to manage the wealth of those born into it to end up stealing this wealth from them.

As far as working smart is better than working hard there are some instances that need working hard. The world record brokers always marry working hard with working smart.

for example I have a task to do, I always search a way that could finish the task faster and better. so I think I'm a smart worker :)

Working hard will not always be a guarantee to make you rich because you will only make your boss richer. But it's different when you work hard for a business that you, yourself is the boss. I guess hardwork pays off if you own the business yourself and the effort you've made for that business is well worth it, when your the one to gain it all.

You're right. Many people work hard but can not make as much money as smart people do. They know how to save time and invest in places where they can earn the fastest

It is better to work harder to use the talents, often to the talented people who are employed at the end of the study and this is the reason for them to be more productive in the brain only but we can not deny that it is also good in doing so we can learn to see the value of something because it tries to get it before it does not mean that they do not use their talents just because they are working hard

The idea that you should work smarter, not only harder isn’t anything new. When talking about the difference between smart and hard work it’s pretty simple to explain what working hard means. If you want to be successful in the long run, you have to put long hours into work.On the other hand, it’s really hard to find very clear guidelines on what working smart really means and how it’s different from hard work. That’s because smart work is what makes the difference.

I prefer to choose working smart, it will give you alot benefit. you can be succes. it is better than working hard.

Work to learn to think wisely efforts can be successful, efforts can get fame and wealth, a lot of people are the "hard" and "hard" as a motto, so busy all day, perennial suffering from tired. But the efficiency of this work is not high, and few of them are able to succeed or get everything they need to get rich. We need smart work, not just hard work.

I'd like to chime in and say it varies on a case-to-case basis but it is usually a combination of both that make you successful.

For example if you are a sculptor, working smarter would probably mean planning out which parts to sculpt first and making sure you don't need to repeat tasks. Then again, that doesn't free you from the fact that you really have to put in the work needed to complete the sculpture. You need to work hard and long to finish it. Going further, some would probably argue that you could work smarter and hire people to do it for you, that would work but you would also have to work hard and interview the right workers and find clients.

Hopefully this examples shows how working smarter and harder goes hand-in-hand.

It's better if you do both. You can work hard but you can also implement strategies to make your profits faster. Just like in business, an owner will just do the basic routine to sell his products and the cycle goes on repeat but if you are working smart, you will go an extra mile and try other methods to make much more profit.

the more important is the work smart. we need to know what to do to make a profit not just today, but for the foreseeable and forever. planning samgat important. after all the preparation is ripe, then it must be balanced with hard work as well.

work smart and work hard, if there is team team you will easily succeed. As far as I work in any field, we alone will not be able to think much, but working with our team will have more ideas.

Working smart and hard is very important. But working smart is a lot better. Important is the result of the work. If you work hard, do not waste your time wasting your time. Smart people work effectively, shorten time and achieve high quality.

Find the identity, learn what is fun and focus and try your best to achieve the goal of what you want. that is what it means to work and make work as a pleasure not a burden in life it will produce something good. in the end I just say work with as much as possible and work as well as possible using positive thoughts then we will get success in work

I think work smart and hard work is needed. when you have a very busy job then smart work it will play an important role in how you manage your time to work and so on. work hard is also needed because sometimes lazy to work is also in the natural happen by everyone. work hard will keep you excited dude

For the best results of course we have to work smart, by mastering the techniques and intelligent methods then we can produce better than working hard, and of course we should always analyze all the work we have done, if there is a failure then we have to improve.

Im interested to this topic. Working smart and working hard are also different.. For me working smart is what im doing now. I just here working. Answering questions that ive recorded. So when someone ask the same question my record will answer him.

Working hard is good thing that happen in your life , but working hard just exerting much of your force without thinking what will happen next about your work, but when you are working smart , you will always thinking of good things about your work, yoy will a good judgement for your work, so I prefer to working smart than working hard  a good guide to happy living.

I think you must always try to find position in life where you can have lot of options open, and try to be smart/informed enough to choose the best one it given moment.
But first you must know what you want and be clear in your goals.
When your goals are clear, you won't waste time on unnneccessary things anymore.

To succeed and become a valuable human being, you need the following three virtues:
-clean-handed
-loyal
hardships and curiosity
These are the best virtues to create billionaires. If you have a lot of time, you can read the autobiography of some people who have been successful in life. They have a common interest in learning, loyalty and consistency with their ideals. That's what I know about your topic, hope it helps.

when someone says we just need to work smart, without having to work hard, I do not agree. But, I agree with smart work. The truth in my opinion is, we need HARD WORK and also SMART WORK. If we just work smart, then we will be defeated by others who work smart and hard work. I'll try to explain briefly that the hard work is working long enough and as much energy as possible, while smart work is to work as well as possible with short time and energy that is not big enough.

On my opinion i choose both, You need to be WORK SMART along with WORK HARD.. You can do both so you'll be successful someday.
If you work hard then no smart work you fixed only for one thing but if you work hard with smart work i should say you the best anf going to successfully!

Very good your writing above. I further mean that smart work is a job done by way of thinking more than the activities undertaken. But still focus on the activities done. While working hard is just an encouragement for someone who does not have a job and he starts his job. So I think if we've worked hard, it's time for us to think of smart work. One example, we start to build our own business, and not just work with others.

Thats entirely depends on the what you are working hard and working smart. If you want to be rich, better work hard to put up a business and be the boss rather than plainly working in a company where your income is limited. For example, here in crypto, you need to work smarter especially in times of red and green states. Be smart and work hard.

I like working smart because just with the right ways and timings i could earn a lot and by doing so i could potentially decrease the time and work but ended with a good results . Timing is just the key dont do what normal people do step up and you will not fail.

Work is important to do because it takes us to the level of success. Both have common denomination in achieving a goal, however differ in many forms in terms of effective and productive outcome. The big difference between the two is that working hard is doing things without thorough planning, whereas working smart is getting work done through effective planning while keeping stress-free environment. Despite their differences what matter is the strong will and consistent perseverance, it is all about learning where to make an effort and what you can contribute to the community, the people around you, and for yourself.

I sincerely disagree with this view. I think working hard before working smart or even just working for somebody before you start to pursue your own interests and work for yourself is not a required part on the road to financial well-being, prosperity and independence. What you say might have been true 200 or even only 20 years ago, but that's no longer the case. Well, Bill Gates never worked for anyone, though he comes from a well-off and wealthy family, but what about Vitalik Buterin then? If I'm not mistaken, he started off even earlier than you are allowed to work full-time for someone (unless you are from a third world country, of course).

In today's world, you can easily skip that part with wage labor and employment, and walk your own path right away, thus saving yourself time and trouble of toiling away at life doing stuff you likely don't want to do, in order to put food on the table or because it is so common and conventional.

For my opinion, people who worked hard are those people who are actually smart because they are thinking for their future or theie family's future. Have encountered lots of hardworking people that's why I consider them as smart ones. They actually do their best, look for something that may help them financially in a good way and in a wisest way. Some successful businessmen who are very hard working even though they haven't finish college in an university. But because they are smart enough to run a business and do network marketing that's why they became successful in life. They have the attitude of being passionate to earn something out from their hard work.

I agree that working hard can make your boss rich not the employee, I experience that kind of stressful job that's why I resign last year and I started to work smarter just like what you said that he must stay in place where he could get a higher chances of luck to get a date with a romantic relationship. Just like work smarter can bring you more earning when you choose to stay in a job to work with a better salary like this business in this forum.

Working smart helps investors to live a more stable life than hard work, but if you include both of these, you will have a quality life. I can only work hard, but it is not entirely reasonable to be risky while participating in commercial projects.

Your opinion is very true, if we only work hard and too enthusiastic with what we do then what we get is tired even though get a big wage, but
from what we do actually provides more benefits for the boss.
My assumption about smart work is for example, even if we are just an ordinary employee try not to suspend your work but try to make a structure / list of what to do on the day, so it does not require excessive force and the job will be in line with the target.

I really liked the way you put it: work smart and play hard. I also massively agree with your other point regarding people who may have fewer resources (brains, industry, dedication, propensity, whatever that might mean) but who still manage to rise higher in life simply because they know how to play their cards.


If you are not smart, then meeting the right people and having access to the right information won't help you much. The right people are smart themselves (well, for the most part), so they will quickly find out that you are not worth their attention (and money). If you are as dumb as a box of rocks, you won't be able to use the information you obtain to your advantage. And it is unlikely that you will have this information in the first place, if only entirely by chance.

Although, who needs brains if he has luck at his side?

There is no way that you can rely on either working harder and working smarter. You need to do the things in a way that you can work both smartly as well as working harder. At time of planning, you need to make the wise decision and once you made any kind of decision, after that you need to put in the best of your efforts to get the desired results which you want to have.

Working smart in here is very important knowing that bitcoin has been very complex and complicated ever since. If you are not going to work smart, you might possibly end up losing a lot or getting lost. Always be knowledgeable on what you are doing so that you can make the most of your investment.

For the same, But you need more patience at work. Especially if you have a family.

I think you should need them both. Because what is the purpose of your hardwork if you sell it in low price thats why we need to smart. We should hold it and do not sell under ico price or the price when you buy it.

Working hard is working and having an income in a slow process. Working smart is working and having an income in a fast process. For me if you just work hard and didn't put your mind into it, nothing will happen. The same process or routine will just go on. If you work smart and didn't work hard, you might get arrogant and start slacking because your presence of mind will be focusing on you can easily get what you want because you know it. Both have negative sides, but when you put it together, you'll be better and you''l double and get a fast income.

In my view, working hard and working smart are two different animals, which have little in common. It is like a sheep and a wolf. The former is a prey while the latter is a predator. Indeed, a wolf can become a prey too (for example, to a human with a rifle and a wolfhound), but this is not common and not natural. When you work for somebody, it is working hard in general. On the other hand, when people work for you, it is working smart, as simple as it gets. Another option which seems to be beyond this dichotomy is when money works for you. I think this is the best option for most of us as we don't have to bear responsibility before and after anyone, so to speak (which is not the case for a regular business with employers and employees).

I strongly believe that we need both of them. Sometimes you have to work hard in order for you to get things within the traditional process or whatever you call it. Working smart on the other hand is the quick process. When you sometimes the life hacks then you have the advantage of living of course. Any kind of work require those kind of attitudes. We just have to know better on how and when will you gonna use that.

I am working in a public sector but at the same time I am also engaging in crypto and I am applying those two. It's just a matter of balance for you to achieve your own definition of success.

Working smart and working hard were two perspectives to make thyself wealthy. Some has the ability to be smart and make the best in a short time. While the user who has the ability to work hard but doesn't have the smart attitude takes more time to attain the same wealth that the smart working personality earned in a short time period.

Not everything that is planned to run in accordance with our wishes, it all depends on effort and hard work, because there is no result that betrays the effort and hard work. The thing to remember is do not ever expect an instant result without any effort first. Hard work or smart work must be accompanied by effort, without any effort, there will be no result.

Smart, hard working is the key to success in the Crypto market.

I prefer working smart it is because when you are working smart you knew what is your strenght and you can do your work very well I believe that it will lead to success.

Many people work hard, but only a few become really successful. That is because smart work is what makes the difference. From physical to creative work, life management skills, time management skills, understanding the system and the territory you operate in,
knowing what you want, being in the right industry, providing scarce resources to markets with a high demand, looking on the bright side of life, carefully selecting the right opportunities, thinking before acting,
focusing on creating, delivering and capturing value, innovating and being bold, having control, leveraging other people’s time, leveraging other people’s money, standing on the shoulders of giants, being proactive and having emotional control, networking and asking for help, putting yourself first, considering limits, hanging out with the best people possible, building on your strengths, the right timing, knowing when to cut the losses.

Yes it is good to work smart and work hard at the same time, if you will have good planning about investing in bitcoin then you will increase your profit for sure, being smart mean investing on right time when price is low and hold it till it get high without thinking about selling at panic price, when you will feel safe for investment it will develop your interest and you will be able to earn higher with passage of time, but at the same time we should not neglect working hard strategy.

This is one of the best posts I've seen in this topic.

I should say that you have made a very clever observation. I think I should expand on it a little bit further here. The "loser" families are set to produce more losers on average and not because they lack something in their genes (they don't). Rather, they lack in their mentality. When you are raised in a distressing environment, mostly psychological in nature, as opposed to physical (which is not as bad), you won't be able to get out of the limits imposed on you by your upbringing. You are "too tired" because you have been fed up with grim prospects of the future and overall pessimistic outlook since your early childhood (actually, from the cradle), and your thinking itself is depressed and constrained. But when you are depressed, both mentally and psychologically (there's a subtle difference), your only option is to work hard if you don't want to end up under the bridge.


It takes a tremendous amount of effort and awareness to break out of this loop and change your life dramatically to the better.

I got your point but I believe, in order to be a wolf first some hard work is done. For becoming rich and successful, a person needs to be smart and hard worker at the same time. It is not possible to get fruits without putting any efforts. For example, bill gates is now the second richest guy of the world but he went through hardships that many of us won’t even think about. Then he was a smart person too.

Both aspects are essential in life, working smart means right knowledge of work executed wisely and working hard is a continous execution of work without a trace of laziness, the urge and motivation to work is there all the time, so for me this 2 characteristics of an individual are both very important, and when this is combined together, success in life is very reachable

Buckle down with the goal that your chance isn't squandered and that you'll figure out how to additionally enhance your gameplay. After then you have work shrewd with the goal that you'll be up over the opposition. You can buckle down throughout the day ordinary however without an objective or pondering how everything goes you can't advance or get advanced. Both go as an inseparable unit and both are required for progress.

For me is it both I can use,because being smart you do anything,answering any question that you answer it in a simple but full of information,in this season you make smart if you duty have this you don't do anything. Being hard working usually all people do this in their own work,if you are hard working you do your life successful.

in my point of view,this two must go together because even how smart you are but you are lazy nothing will happen.coddos to being a hard working but you are not smart,what ever hard work you will do,at the end of the day you only have just penny in your hand.It is better if you are a hard working and smart,you will have good strategies.That way you will earn good income.

Indeed, no one can think in the same way as someone else. But that's why working smart is possible at all in the first place if we think of it as working differently from the rest of the pack, that is more efficiently and effectively. Working hard in the sense it is meant in this thread can provide sustenance for you and your family, but it won't get you ahead of the pack, above the multitude of ordinary people who live paycheck-to-paycheck. In other words, your level of well-being and prosperity doesn't depend very much on how hard you work. It is like the law of diminishing returns squared. Even if you work twice as hard, your achievement will be miserable.


I agree that luck plays a far more important role in our lives than most people here assume. However, we are all presented with a solid share of it through our lives. And in the end, it is not so much about the lack of luck as such as about our failure to first recognize it and then use it to our advantage. There is enough luck in the universe for everyone.

For me, working smart here in bitcoin is much needed than working hard. Working smart means you are analyzing things carefully before making a move which is very useful here since scammers and frauds are everywhere. Working hard is not bad at all but I think it will end up nonsense if you are going to work hard without using your mind.

It rarely works out perfectly (or anywhere close to perfect) in real life. People have hobbies and they have jobs. Most of the time these are not the same and often not near enough to being even remotely related. And it is not only that. People change as they gain in years and experience just as their views, interests and aspirations do. So even if your goals are crystal clear while your thoughts pristine pure (more or less) at the moment, it doesn't mean a thing. In a few years you may go through a major personality shift, then again and again, and now you no longer know what you want in life.

This is aptly called a life crisis, and it happens not just once in almost everyone's life.

I think smart work is better and healthier than hard work because I think hard work is true you can get a lot of profits and your performance can be maximized but your health will definitely be disrupted so better smart work to maintain your health.

Work smart or Hard work, the answer is hard work in the accompaniment with intelligent mind, that will result in success. but actually smart work is better than hard work, because with Smart work we can earn money by not using so much power. if the name of hard work is certain, time, energy and mind we use it all.

I think more time savings if you work smart You can be able to determine whether it's time to invest or not.
Working smart can save time rather than work hard.

Working hard is very different on working smart. When you are working hard, you are putting all your time and efforts on something without being strategical or without using your mind while when you are working smart, you are not putting much effort but you are using your mind to find easier ways to make a job well done. Working hard is much commended for people here in bitcoin in my opinion.

In my view, a lot of people are just happy with what they already achieved. As the saying goes, if there is a will there is a way, though it is not just about wanting something, you have to be willing to get there and actually do something to that end. Many people are simply stuck in the rut, and they just don't have enough energy to change their ways even if they understand they deserve more than what they've got. Bosses around the world are not fools, and they definitely know how to squeeze the last drop of life out of their staff. They know that when they suck the lifeblood out of their employees, the latter will be too tired and exhausted to think of the ways to improve their lives, which in many cases means kissing them goodbye.

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I am sure that it is possible to become successful only having a strategy and strictly observing it. Our life is not only work, but also family, friends, etc. I think that a successful man is one who balances all of these areas.

I wouldn't call that insight. This is what most people instinctively think and reply when asked to tell the difference between working hard and working smart. Most likely you will hear that working smart is doing the same thing you always do but in a more efficient manner, which means spending less resources, time and effort on it. Somehow, I'm not quite happy and satisfied with this definition as it lacks insight, yeah. In fact, working smart in this context is not actually about working at all. It is more about acting smart or being smart in real life as opposed to just hired labor.

When by working smart we really mean working (doing some tasks as an employee), it feels like we throw the baby out with the bathwater and leave the most important part of "working smart" (which, as I said, is more about acting smart) out of consideration completely.

Well, if you start working hard and do it with all of your passion and love for the cryptocurrency, soon you will manage to work smart. You'll work out your strategies.

In my opinion, working smart is creating the environment where you can work less and earn more.
The ideal dream of many people is being a boss and giving instructions to their subordinates without having to do the work itself.
In successful businesses their bosses need to have the clear idea of how it all works and that's quite impossible without knowing the business processes.

I do not disagree with what you have said in your post and it is pretty informative.

In my opinion in the beginning, it's the combination of both then the transition of working hard to working smart is slowly being done. Have sometime to watch this video about two friends who manage their way to success. It's a story of working hard and working smart. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7lVrPd6fg8

As far as working smart is better than working hard there are some instances that need working hard. The world record brokers always marry working hard with working smart.

All your topics and posts are great for insights and knowledge as a reference to how we succeed in working.

Actually, you do even have a point because working just hard will just make you tired of what you are doing and you will notice small progress or not at all. So I agree that it will be better or even best to work on the smart way because being smart on working can give you a lot of opportunity to succeed in life. But what is the real essence of this and the conclusion I have got from this, the key to success is not just all about hard work but also about how will you be smart on working to hit a certain goal which can be achieved if you work hard on the smart way as possible.

All i can say is that it really depend on of what your job is, if your a laborer or a garbage man i think working hard is applicable in your tour of duty maybe less in working smart or in working strategy.

Working smart is better than working hard why ? Because in my opinion you could notice what is wrong and what is right. Unlike working hard you already working and working and then you couldn't notice your actions will be going wrong. And last not all working hard workers are not yet succeed.

I think if both are done it will get better and faster to achieve what they want .. because having intelligence also takes hard work by strategizing and running it with hard work and intelligence is not always silent and sitting relaxed, intelligence also requires hard work and clever minds for what has been made is achieved .. so I think both are more perfect if both go together ..

Spend a few years working really hard and use your weekends to work on your passion. Learn to manage your time like a pro. Don't work, work for freedom.

That's another interesting point worthy of mentioning. I know that I may sound a bit arrogant here but such is life. We are able to work smart because someone else has chosen (or been chosen) to work hard. If people honestly believe that working all day long and leaving the office at late hour (and also working at weekends, why not, really) is good, such is their choice. Or rather someone else's (that would be their boss in this case) who was smart enough to successfully make them believe that they are doing the right thing for themselves, while, in reality, they are doing the right thing for their boss. This is a nice and revealing example how smart work differs from hard work.

It could be generalized in the following way. As much as you are aware of the circumstances, you work for yourself (circumstances work for you). On the flip side, as much as you are unaware of the circumstances, you work for someone else (circumstances work you). The evident conclusion is that working smart is working for yourself (in general terms), even if you are a typical office rat.

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Working hard and working smart can't be separated if a person aim success in his/her career. The combination of this this two things provide assurance for victory of your work.

most people say it's important to be work hard the more we need to work smart so that if you are a business you can handle it or overcome by having knowledge but you also need to work hard

We should be smart and wise in order to succeed in our life.
I have seen so many people who are working hard but still couldn’t afford to buy or own a house.

In my opinion we need to be smart in every decision on our life. Like for example in choosing a job, then once you already decided on the job that you have,  you should work harder for the benefits of being promoted or have an incentives.

The points are very interesting and here I  am collecting interesting ideas.

I agree that working hard is the best way to achieve a goal. Only being ambitious and hard-working a person can reach the goal and be successful. There are a lot of guides on the Internet that are designed to help you in achieving your goal quickly and effectively

Working hard is what most of us do. But sometimes, working hard is never enough I order to succeed or earn much money. In contrast, working smart in my opinion is working in line with your ability but without consuming much effort our sacrificing your whole life into it.
In analogy:
Working hard: Working in an office cubicle on a 9 to 5 job. Being paid with minimum salary.
Working smart: posting here in bitcoin forum.
I hope my simple analogy helps.

If hard work was really the best way to success then the workers in the cement industry,masons,and sweepers at the company should have been the highest earners in the company not their bosses.
The days of slavery and industrial age was when we talked about hard work as the source of success.Am in no way suggesting that hard work do not give success but in the information,hard work do not always give success but being smart with timely receiving and acting on information.Information age is about smartness not only hard work.

Working smart is essential while working hard...because not all who works hard work smartly sometime they just work and work without thinking...without planning..without strategy without goal in mind while working that is why even if he works for a decade still nothing improve and nothing accomplish...

I prefer working hard with smart strategic. I think it will make you success.because , Today there is many competitions , you must smart and work hard.

In my opinion, working hard means that you don't use your creative abilities, and you make what is well known and defined at the current times. Working smarter means that your work is non-standard, and you make a new thing or invent something. Personally I mostly approve the second way, because the progress is needed, but not always the creative persons become rich.

I can see that most of the community (including me) is standing on the working smart side.

I don't know if it also happened to you guys, but sometimes you see people "proud" of working over 10 hours a day, maybe because it makes them feel like some small Elon Musk.

I think smart work was born before working smart. because ancient times did not know sophisticated technology depends only on energy and muscle saja.maka than that we should appreciate our bekeja system, smart or hard.

I'm afraid this is nowhere near enough. A lot of people push themselves close to or even beyond their natural limits, and what do they get in return? Let me guess, severe procrastination and boredom in the very least and ultimately health issues as a nice bonus if they persist, ranging from purely psychological (like depression and other mental disorders) to physical problems. Even when you decide on pushing yourself (as much as I don't like this word), you should do that in a smart way. Thou shalt know thy limits!


Something like 90% (or even more) of startups end up bankrupt in the first year of their operation. Obviously, it is a dead end for the majority of people and yet another cliche you will find among many others under the "how to get rich fast" section.

Well, when we talk about working hard, we would definitely think that person is a worker, an employee, instead of boss, that means that our career can only reach a certain level then we will not be able to continue the breakthrough. And talking about a person who works smart, we can see the potential in them, they can achieve great breakthrough, they are born to become a wealthy, exactly as you say, not all smart and creative people will become rich but they will always have a higher rate than those who work hard, they may not be rich but their lives will be full of comfort and no shortage of anything, so I also like to work smart, instead of hardworking

today intelligent work is needed.
know the narrowness of the job and right you say that hard work will enrich the boss.
if I had the chance to become a rich man I would work smart with the assets I have without having to work hard.
and I will hire people who want to work hard
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For those who have big capital then smart work of course is the thing they can do, but if not yet have capital and money then that can be done is work hard. all efforts if started with good things then produce things that are satisfactory.

Working hard is nothing but a waste of time, working smart is the key.

I have firm belief that working smart and working hard bath have equal importance in the progress and prosperity of a person. If someone has talent and chooses a beneficial profession which is indeed smart but does not give his best, definitely he will never come at the top of competition. As the saying goes, hard work beats talents when talent does not work hard. Without some real efforts, dreaming for fruits is stupidity.

Working smart will bring you success because there are a lot of people in the corporate world today who are working but definitely they are not earning that much money so we can say that working smart is better than working hard.

Working hard is different from working smart.
Working hard can perform the work without using the mind. The daily routine of responsibilities can master in a couple of months. So being smart is not required in that particular field of duty. While in other hands working smart is better than working hard. It means even the daily routine is there still the person try to observe what the possible things to be learned in order to improve self confidence and be more productive. It is also creativity of the worker. Smart worker will prepare not just for today's issue but also the coming tomorrow.

People spend most of their lives at work, and we have to find ways to manage our time. When you work in a limited period of time, will be all to have finished all the work and in good order, no longer feel have a lot of things busy not over, no longer feel complicated work, also need to often work overtime, will no longer forget some important things, well, congratulations, you have control over their time effectively, become the master of time.

Usually the work is a routine routine that someone higher in the food chain has set for you. Our parents went to work, all our friends want to get a job, the advertisement replicates the image of a happy worker. We grow up with the thought that our natural destination is to be a work force. But perhaps a radical change for the better lies at the heart of the decision to become the master of his business. Work for self-employed is the ability to independently bear responsibility for your income and your life as a whole.

I would rather work with my intellectual abilities rather than with my physical ones since new ideas, problem solutions and other products of your brain are always more appreciated.

Working hard and working smart have connection to each other. You can't become successful person if you don't have one of those traits. You should work smart and work hard for you to easily achieve your dreams.

I would say that in my life from personal experience it usually happen, that I`m working hard, and then develop a way to work smart.

Working without thinking clearly or being smart will cost you a big amount of time. I have many friends who do not waste to much time on working but they still have good amount of money because they willing to learn more and use their brain in working

In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with working hard, but this doesn't mean that I agree that working hard will lead to riches and success. I have been seeing friends and family members work as hard as they can but only earn barely enough to support their families needs, while there are lots of people who are actually almost doing nothing but are actually successful, maybe they are doing something right or better that they are earning much better than the hard workers. 

if my experience does work hard it also requires working smart, because we hard work it must also have the intelligence in concluding a thing, and make decisions. everyone needs both.

I think the most important is just smart work because with smart work you can manage to get a very high profit but not necessarily require time and energy very much. when you've implemented smart work you can get a lot of benefits.

work hard or work smart that determines is the person's own thoughts. if the person is educated or has extensive knowledge then will choose to work smart.

My practical take on working smart is knowing what your strengths and weaknesses are and then work with them in a way that will be accurate and efficient. Also know the tools and resources that you have, so you know how and when to use them to finish the task at hand correctly and on time.

Working smart is actually the best way to go because it’s not every hardworker that has ended up being successful. To be more productive you have to do everything in a smart way.In Africa hardworkers use cutlass to weed whiles the smart ones uses machinery to do the same thing.

This is definitely not how the dilemma of working hard vs working smart is pictured by almost everyone here (well, at least not with me). Working hard doesn't always mean that you are spending all your time on whatever you do and vice versa. Rather, it is about effort applied and reward received, both in financial and emotional aspects. Working hard basically means wasting your time and at large your life. So, if your boss makes you believe that working extra hours is good for you, would that count as a "definite direction" according to you? And how is this direction actually beneficial to you then?

What if later you come to a conclusion that it is not the direction you really wanted to take?

Working smart is the best because you don't need a lot of effort because you just need time and effort to make it happen. If you are a lazy person then work smart because just like the other people who succeed in their lives they work smarter more than just working hard because working hard will consume a lot of time and energy from you which is not a wise choice.

it's true especially in the work, the most priority and be a bullet in the work of course smart in thinking and working hard in order to realize that in want it is very necessary. being intelligent and persistent in the work is very important

Yeah, but since people were mindlessly quoting walls of texts, I took a more flexible approach, and in this thread all relevant and interesting information is collected in the second post, for your reading pleasure.


I would say that there are many underwater rocks with being raised in a rich family. It is a well established fact that many rich families go bust in a couple of generations, so it is a tricky question. Indeed, you already have capital, you are literally born into it, therefore you have a tremendous advantage in this regard. On the other hand, if you bathed in luxury all your younger years, which you spent partying days and nights, you won't know the real life unless your family makes sure that you get acquainted with it.

actually hardworking is good. but method of working is also very important. hardworking does not mean that working for so long time blindly. it might be wasting time. using time efficiently is also very important.

I also choose working smart. Those been working hard never success in life, they  only live as average people because some of them contented of there earning as they can survive in a daily basis because they are lack of knowledge on how to grow there money. Unlike in working smart , they network other people to grow there assests.

If you find right way to be rich or earn more money, you can work really hard but if you have regular income, no need hard work. regular income means regular work!

For me its better to be a working smart than working hard because being smart was  always have nice decision to have a better result as the quote said "think before you click" so this quote present that being smart was always thinking also the positive and negative side but being working hard no matter what happen always doing they didn't think what is the negative result and didn't think the side effect of his/her doing. Why businessman was one of the investor just because of they are always working smart than working hard.

I'm a fan of working smarter, not harder. Here's the analogy I like to use:

You can get in your car without a map and just drive without having any idea where you're going. You might drive around in circles unknowingly. You might drive for hours and get virtually nowhere fast. Now get in the same car with a map and you instantly know how to get from point A to point B. Mission accomplished. I think in life, if you can figure out where you'd like to go, you can figure out your map. Working smarter, not harder. Figure out your destination, whatever it may be, and as long as you stay focused on your end goal, you'll know if your headed in the right direction at most given points.

I prefer to work hard with smart ways. you can choose to invest in crypto, it is smart strategic. You will get alot benefit from it.

This is a very interesting post and I have really noted down the best things.

For me its better to be a working smart than working hard because:
Your life is not just about work, it's about having fun, passion and relationships. Setting yourself up with a smart way of working will increase your productivity and job performance, so you not only develop your career but also balance your personal life.

To my mind, you do not need to be limited in the opportunities and should stay diversed and educated enough to have otpions to choose from.

If you can combine both working smart and working hard at the same time, you will become the greatest worker ever. It will give you more time and more solutions to solve a problem in order to earn money. However, in my opinion, I still prefer working smart to working hard

Working smart is the result of working hard. You must have enough ability to be able to suceed on your work. You have to make wise decision. You have to make decisions on your own, you have to consider everything that might affect your decision. You have to be independent and flexible. But this starts with you on the lowest level, working hard on stuffs until you get used to those stuffs and became easy for you to accomplished such tasks, from there you are working smart because you can accomplished the task faster and more efficient than before.

People who became rich because of cryptocurrencies deserve their wealth because they work hard and work smart. Knowledge is also important factor for us to find a way where we can make money through the use of cryptocurrencies.

In my opinion, it is always better to use both the things at the same time as this will result in more profitable stuff. If you will use your brain wisely and that you make a better plan and strategy and after that you put in the bets of your efforts, then this will surely help you in having more fruitful results. You just need to use the right thing and the right time and by doing so, results will be in your favor.

I prefer working smart like invest in crypto or participate in bounty. You will get alot of income. I have did it. I thanks to crypto.

It depends on where you belong why you need to work harder , working harder may an effortless if you are doing this for your boss and for you to just make a survival living. But if you are working hard with the above reason from the latter reason,  this is a kind of practice of a smart person. So meaning we can do both working hard and working smarter which is the best action because if you have an opportunity to work smarter without working hard it can be a waste.this is my opinion.

work smart hard, how about this. mean it and do it smart. as a trader I do a lot of exchanges, especially all coins that pair with Bitcoin, and profit from trading I divide into two. increase capital and invest into other businesses, one of which is a loan. and the profit I divide into 2 again. partly to increase capital, and the rest I wd to fiat to meet my life needs.

It happens with every other person because we don’t know the smart method of working beforehand until and unless we don’t indulge into that activity. So smart people after a short time figure out a better way of accomplishing the task. What I believe is that without any hard work, smartness is not going to make you stand out of the crowd. You need to work hard but in a smart way. Working hard is mandatory. 

I agree with you. A job is the choice of every individual.
They sometimes get tough jobs with difficult job demands and others who work easily and make a lot of money.
My experience, I work full time for a job but my boss gives me a lot of work but the salary is not much.
I decided to quit the job and try to learn Cryptocurrency.
I see many people who are not too busy with their work but they can make a lot of money even more than people who work full time in a company.

I thnk these two are best when combined. Working hard gives you food everyday while working smart gives you the ability to have the upper hand when it comes to work, now, combining these two gives you the ability to make it big in any work that you are doing, so for me, none is greater than the other, because without hard work or working smart success is gonna be hard to find.

In Digital Era, we get much information very quickly. In information World that we need is working smart. Because how we can do every our work as fast as good as possible, as fast as possible, as perfect as possible. When we can do ourwork smart we can money more than when we work hard. 

To tranfer yourself from working hard to working smart you need to have brains in your skull :) Otherways it is much easier to work hard

Work smart I think a simple example like we are in this forum or in the crypto world without having to be a hard worker who will make her body feel sick from fatigue.
and hardworking workers who only work day or night with no time and need with a strong energy to earn a blessing.
intelligent workers can only rule or work with the mind without having to spend energy and without time-bound.

I don't think luck is the major factor in working smart. I think working smart is an effective and efficient use of resources (ie time, work force, etc) to increase productivity or reach your goal. It means that every single move isn't wasted. For example a high ranking manager would deligate menial tasks so they could focus more on yhe big problems. So instead of thinking about when will the manager will pick up their laundry, they will have people doing it for them.

Whatever but sometimes working harder is the only option we have. Like studying! more we study the better we remember

You had point, i agree in working smart because these people had  a good sight for what can be come in their future. Doing things with knowledge not just work hard to earn and again. Working hard is making someone life better, you will be paid in enough. Smarter will do something to not happen thinhs like that. Trying to escape in life and become better than anyone

hard work is a term that encompasses an ongoing effort (never giving up) in completing the job / which is its job to its due diligence. But hard work does not mean to work thoroughly and then stop, which is to lead to a great vision that must be achieved for the good / benefit of human beings and their environment.
While Smart Work is work that not only rely on muscle, but also using the brain, can think creatively and innovatively, to get maximum results with effective time, so still have time and energy to perform activities or other work.

You are right, working smart is advantageous in many folds!

I prefer working hard with smart strategic. It will make me a succes. I personally have did it. You can try to partcipate in bounty campaign.

But i think you should working hard with smart mind because if you just work in smart and no hard working so it will never beneficial for you, so it is very important that you will work smart with hard working.

Working hard will not always be a guarantee to make you rich because you will only make your boss richer. But it's different when you work hard for a business that you, yourself is the boss.

Working smart is using they brain and taking a better chance,while working hard is apply you physics natural involving your whole strength in archiving such aim,so work hard and be smart by taking chances.

Working smart or working hards its a good implication towards the people of this community,actualy its a good  statement bro,that sometimes in life we must choose to working smart to become successfull than working hard,because only the company you working is benefited in all your effort.otherwise working smart is much closer to achieve your dreams in life,because you can use your brain before you work,unlike working hard you only use your physical capabilities without looking the future if you will be blessed in the end  of your work.

I like the fact that you mentioned that working hard will only make company owners rich. This is true to a certain point but you can use your job experience to find better ones. That is how to work smart. Do not settle to a company that will stop you from growing. There will always be more for you to learn and always consider transferring to other companies with better offer. Do this stuff while you were young so you won't have any regrets when you grow old.

I believe in it too since I have known some of my relatives who has been in the company for 10-20 years yet their lives still remains that they are still have simple life sometimes their salary still not enough so they have to borrow from a friend or in a bank so that they can have something to pay for the tuition fee of their children.

I've heard suggestions from successful people who earn $ 35k every month. he says to be successful must work hard and he also says the more often you are fooled then you will be smarter.

I personally prefer to working smart, because with smart strategic I believe I will succes. I have did to participate in bounty campaign and trade in crypto. It is working smart.

Both, I agree working smart and working hard. I think If you working hard with smart startegic , you will be success. It is my opinion. You can try to invest crypto, it is working smart.

I think work smart always better than work hard. if someone is not a smart person, believe me he doesn’t has any place in the world. Now, people become so sharp that they don’t allow anyone to surpass them. So in case you want to extend your professionalism or work, you need to be smart and hard worker. These both attributes can help you take the mark and if even one is missing, you are just ruined up person.

Yes it is, working smart is bette than working hard given the dact that it was smart way kf working even a little time you do it it will be wprth it since you have been in pathway that you want to wokr with,  vwry minute that you do is very fruitful but on he contrary without constant effort and determination you cannot actuall be succee with that and for me that will be the time that working hard will come in the picture.

Both are important as if you have a smart mind but even then you will have to work hard to get what you are planning in your mind so it is much better if you carry both in your mind, if you join campaigns then you will use your knowledge and will earn with your smartness but you will have to give your time for this, so in short a hard worker actually workers smart.

Following the rules based on how people and society actually work accounts much when a person is dealing with crypto currencies on the trading market. Most people are of the view that working hard makes you succeed in life and get riches. Working hard only makes the superior or business richer but not the individual personally. There is a saying that men ought to work smarter not harder. Let us take for instance being in a business requires you to be specific, measurable and time bound in going about your activities which will make you profitable in  the coming years.

Working hard only spends time, energy and thoughts but is far from successful .... But working smart is doing a job with a short time and getting maximum results, smart work is not mind-consuming because it usually works smartly doing something we love

According to a statement I’ve red before “No one’s get rich by working 9 am to 5 pm”. He has a point in it, no matter how working hard a person is if your company doesn’t pay you well you’ll never be able to reach your goals. So my suggestion is to work smart and also work smart with bitcoin.

I think both need to be done, both hard work and smart work. why I talk like that, because working intelligently only raises our ideas and thoughts in working .. the rest to work hard to achieve our goals. now try you think you have a goal to become rich, what you will only work smart without any hard work.

Exactly, you can't reach your financial goal if you working for someone else, but if you have your own business, working hard is important to build that business but working smart also required to achieve the goal that you want, and that can build the strong company. Anyways, i didn't see an successful people that work for 9 to 5 job, frequently they invest and the money work for them.

I think hard work and smart work all need to be done. Working hard and smart work will not always be a guarantee to make you rich because you will only make your boss richer. But different when you work hard for your business, itself is the boss. With you working hard and working smart certainly you will be able to grow your business .. I think hard work will be paid if you have your own business and the business you do for the business is very valuable, and the guarantee is success

Try to make yourur work arranged systematically, rather than doing bulky. It would reduce the stress on yourself with better benefits.

In my own I do both I work smart at the same time I work hard for the good of all. Work smater is a common phrase of a worker all throughout their career. While working hard is together with positive mind and awake for the positive output all day. The both will be an unlimate guide for us to become successful in terms of what is in planned to do. Those are my key for me to be able to reach what I am now.

I think working smart is better than hardworking because smart strategy is always finding the right things if which things are profitable and more progressive for a living. While hard working only spending more strength without thinking how to improve big things. But being lucky i didn't considere as an ultimate guide.

I prefer working hard and spend my spare time to do working smart , like to participate in bounty campaign

It is very important to do both no one that gets far in life only does one, you need to work hard and you need to work smart that is the only way to get ahead in life, look at any famous person that you admire whether that person is a scientist, an artist, or a businessman and you will see a person that worked very hard for what he wanted and that also was really smart and found new ways to do something.

Working smart is more important anywhere like in stocks as well. A better approach is to use your capital to buy the stocks in a number of companies. This results in decreased risk for the investor.

Working hard does not mean to make your boss wealthy, I think it means to work hard we have to be really serious with heart to doing something. While, working smart in my opinion is where you work because it is your desire, you work with the heart is not a burden, where you do something because of your own will, then you can be more innovative and creative.

 I think it’s a mix of both you have to work hard and work smart at the same time. Putting in hard work and effort is really important but also strategizing and planning out everything is Key.

Working smartly for me does not come without hard work because if you want to excel in life you have to work hard first then after working hard you can apply smartness to your work and you can say that I am working smartly so for anyone to work smartly first have to work hard have the knowledge and know-how of what you are doing.

There is definetly big difference between working hard and woorking smart but the main advantage when making money with your intellectual skills is that you spend less physical effort and learn new things, get knowledge which is always great.

I prefer working smart, we will succes if you can choose smart strategic for you business. I believe it, trader is smart job. so, you can try it.

You need to work hard AND smart: the idea that someone can be so smart to escape the hard part is completely unrealistic.

You can work hard while you are working smart. You know what I mean cause people nowadays can do all.their want if you are really smart you can work hard while working smart. An entrepreneurial is an  important to adopt and you will be successful someday. Just dream and believer

Smart work is better than hard work 'is not a foreign phrase that even hundreds of times we hear in our lives. Why do we think this phrase later matters? Because now is the modern age, where life is short and we feel the time passes when we do little if we work hard, then we do only that and that is often useless. Conversely, if we work smart, we will not only save time to work optimally but also save our energy and operational costs.

We will have to mange with both as if you will work really hard but you will not work smart all your effort will go in vain so it is good if you work really hard but don’t let it go wasted buy working or palming foolish, so working smart will save your time and your money from going wasted to be with  both I am sure you will make high amount of money for planning well and work on it with full honesty.

I think working in the crypto world is working smart. because for me working in crypto does not have to think hard about working in the office that everything should be according to the wishes of the boss. I agree with your post that we are better at working smart than working hard.

I prefer working smart, because Smart work is better than hard work 'is not a foreign phrase that even hundreds of times we hear in our lives. You will be succes, If you working smart. I like it.

The population of the people on this planet are getting immense number. The populace graduate in school likewise increment. The primary issue is seeking and finding an agreeable job isn't simple. When someone already have a job, we must concur the working brilliant and hard. This the mix with a specific end goal to like your actives of your manager.

every one want this situation, working with less effort and working from home.maybe most people dream this condition.people that can do this is lucky people.

Working hard always sometimes victimize with lack of opportunity just because of thinking that what they are doing is a chance to survive so it needs an effort of working hard making themselves blind sometimes from the better things around them.

smart people are hardworking, but hard-working people are not necessarily smart jobs; we know that people who think far more spend energy than just work hard using muscles, maybe many people think hard work is working with muscles or bodies, but according to I think hard-minded people are more energy-draining. so I prefer to think hard rather than just work hard which results far less, in the future human muscle will be replaced by machine, robot and AI, the ignorant and uneducated person is no longer needed

For me, both are equally important. It is not possible to become a successful renowned personality without working hard because it is law of nature that a man only gets what he efforts for. With little efforts, big achievements are impossible to happen. For example, investing in bitcoin is smart but a holder can never earn more profits than a trader as the later one works hard too. Being clever and intelligent is just the foremost requirement but not the only requirement.

Success came to me when I started working for myself. You need to completely immerse yourself in the subject of your work and work hard to achieve success

I prefer working smart , why ? Working hard is really okay but working smart is much better , its like going to a certain place without knowing the different ways, a hard worker will continue to walk while a smart worker will look for the shortest way, at the end of the day they got the same goal.  But it will be much better if you work hard and be smart , succeeding in life means a lot of effort you cannot always look for an alternative so you should always work hard

nice word to say " better if you work hard and be smart " .no one can do that together.but for some people working smart is hard to do.they need special skill to work.

I think working hard and smart should always go hand in hand. working hard I mean is willing to diligently do any work that becomes productive opportunities. and also smart looking for opportunities for success.

I would say thay sometimes the situation requires both working hard and working smart which is why these two skills are necessary to become successful and make good money so you need to stay multifunctional all the time.

In order to achieve success, it is needed for a man who has the will to succeed. A man needs to be smart because there are many challenges before you achieve success, so you need to be smart to deal with those and you can also think of ways on how you can be a successful person. A person also needs to be hardworking because knowledge is wasted if not used so make use of it and be a hardworking person. I also indicate luck because not all hardworking and smart person are successful, sometimes we need luck in our life. Some people has given the opportunity which does not have in other people.

I go for working smart rather than working hard. Working smart is a less time consumer. Also, it helps you grow more and be mature. Although, the both them are essential, it is still better if you work smart because in doing it you train your mind to be competitive and open minded in all things. Furthermore, it helps you see opportunities. Working smart is also a strategy you need to avail.

Working smart and working hard must followed both to achieved what you wanna aim for, These two methods are very significant especially in dealing investment. You cannot come up to your destination without smart moves like planning and exert extra effort to do so.

it's true especially in the work, the most priority and be a bullet in the work of course smart in thinking and working hard in order to realize that in want it is very necessary. being intelligent and persistent in the work is very important

Well as far as i had experience, i had also read lots of sarcastic documentations, comments and opinions regarding working hard and working smart. Some of them are even saying " if hard work really pays, show me a rich donkey", although their reference is a donkey, i somehow agree with it. I know working hard has good results, but you should also take your brain sometimes and be wise when working. Same as exceeding your limits, you should also learn to rest.

Well of course it will be great if we can be working smart. But then let's see, do we all blessed with smart brain? No right. There are several people who're not really smart. But does that mean they don't have a chance? Of course no. They can cover it with working hard. If a lazy people with smart brain and a normal hardworking people, i think the latter will have better chance to be successful.
But of course it's true. We need to be smart and make use of the situation really well. Don't miss any chance, and so we need to work hard so we won't miss any golden opportunity.

Hard work is working so hard that you do not have the time and energy to do other activities. While the meaning of intelligent work is working and still have the energy and time for anything with the assumption of getting the same result.

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 think they are a process. Working smart will be prior to working hard. First you will work Smart considering all the possibilities and instances wherein you will have successful outcome and after that was the time where you will hard to reach the success of the process. It was like working hard on a smart way. Make sense isn't it?

I would prefer working smart of course, it can accomplish the job, accurately and efficiently without putting so much effort if you know how to work smart, like using your resources, tools, apps, of even mentor someone so you can delegate tasks. That is the meaning of working smart for me. Technically you are just using resources in order to get the job done, so it is a win win situation, the job gets done and you are not that tired or spending so much time on it.

That is right, we should always work smart since smart people has the advantage in the reality, just like in a company those managers/CEO are those who are working smart since they study hard to be in their position while those under them are the people who are working hard usually they don't have a degree.

That's true, if you are aiming for an progressive act in short period of time I guess combining the two is the secret, Working smart is useless if you dont do it consistently that's the time that working hard will come into the picture without the determination to work with every plan you cant have the thing that you are aiming, working hard is also great better to combine it with the working smart.

What distinguishes people who work hard and work smart is how people are good at using and managing energy. people who work hard always act more but little results. while people who work smart and are able to use and change energy, act a little but more results. Energy regulation and transmutation will always be based on your intentions.
both of which I have experienced and if I have to choose, I will choose both to run as time passes.

Many would like to read it more in favor of working smart. because it's your own benefit. If you're working hard, you're just the one you love. That's why I'm very grateful to this question because I just learned that WORKING SMART is better.

Understand working smart, then efforts to "flower in the most meaningful and the most value", or is likely to be trying to "things that don't need to do, the result instead spend more time than others, also not necessarily complete better results. Therefore, in hard work and smart work, the order is not to be transferred.

For me do them both is the best thing to do success is gonna be in your way if you have been doing that all along. Because working smart means working efficiently you are not just working all the time but working some times but assures that those works really gave you a huge profit. Working hard of course because if some people sees you thst you are working hard means that you are dedicated to your work but working hard doesn't means you are having a lot of profits so if you are working into cryptocurrency you must work smart.

Working smart is way more effective than working hard. If you work hard without thinking on what could be the easiest way to accomplish something, possibly you won't gain, you're just working hard and making yourself tired of your job. But if we work smarter than that, well, you have that light feeling, relax, joy, you gain knowledge and that can possibly brings you up to the highest rank.

I think both are requires in the crypto market and are equally applicable in the market, the ratio of both these types are the same and you can not leave one on another. If you are here in the market in order to get maximum profit then you will work hard and also you will have to apply various assumptions according to the market which is called smartness, so both are applicable.

For me both characteristics of working hard and smart are ultimately part of cryptocurrency working base like in a bounty campaign which if don't work hard looking for a nice campaign in altcoin bounties you can not earn bigger bounty allocation with a smart analysis which determine the campaign whether it grab automatically by the investors or not.

I also have not seen any intelligent man, who was a lazy-bone. When you work hard for a very long time, finally, you find your strategy how to work smart.

If you can work smart, then why not work hard? With both, i think that you would have a very high rate of success. Working smart without any other qualities would not make you any less successful, as you have said while working smart you also need luck. If I were smart, i would do all the necessary qualities to be successful, and one of them is also by working hard.

It is simply working smart. Even if you work so hard, you only exert too much power and energy on all that you do and this is only good to your boss not to you. The most important is to work smart like you are enjoying your work.

Working smart are also less stress  in mind and physical stress than to working hard,,because in the modern day today due to internet are demand more people are essay to success in life and earned the money as we can compared to the old man before as work harder but no saving and enough  earnings because for just limited income resources.

Indeed mate, working smart can make us more doing little work with maximal result. Working smart need strategy and plan to accomplish something but the result more bigger than working hard.

Working hard is when you are doing a certain job in a company, putting so much effort, time, hard work and others. Yet, receiving just enough and not so high pay off supported by a statement saying "No one's ever get rich by working from 9am to 5pm". I would choose working smart and it is much better if you  work smart with Bitcoin.

for me to work hard and work smart is a positive thing and in the end both will receive income as well. I think the hard work that we often do first if we already understand the work then our mindset will lead to intelligent work.

When you are teenagers working hard fits for them because they have muscles to used too much energy to use and more carbo to burn, but when you get to an age wherein your body can generate fast I think you need to thins how to work smart, this time you should be on office work or supervisory position since we can nit be young forever.

Yed that's true but didnt we all know that without consistent action it will never worked, these two were both essential for us to grow and for our development. Working smart is about how good and effective the business plan was but working hard is making the ideas into life and we should both know how to value these things so we can reach the expected outcomes.

My idea is to learn more. Fr instance in the work you're doing now, learn the underpinnings. Ask yourself, what makes your boss your boss? Is it ideas? Then ask how he came about it. Seek every avenue to learn. Most people work because they want more money. They're committed to something only if it will bring more money. They don't think about building their capacities.
If we will learn to acquire knowledge and know how to use it properly rather than being too anxious for money, then we're working smart.
I am a living example of this.

What I do is ask older people for their advice and try to understand their insight and try to apply to my own life. I try to balance both usually.

work smart, which I've proven by working more than one project with different jobs and being able on time and professionally, but the addition of my personal work smart when someone is able to create jobs with a more humane system of existing employment, as well can work by way of making goods that later can be patented as the work of the person,
and from that it was all the first and the last I had done and it was so beautiful
spirit of friends and success always

If you want to be successful in the long run,you have to put long hours into work that's for working hard means.But many people work hard,but only few become really successful that's because smart work is what makes the difference. Most people who are working smart didn't learn it.They do it intuitively,it's part of their career.

Working hard probably means working smart . ;D You can't work hard without knowledge how to work so ware are talking about the same thing with different names.

Yes the two are both important to achieve your goals of success.Working hard with working smart is the best ultimate guide for you to be productive in your field of expertise.Apply them  both and you will gain what you have work for.

I choose working smart. Working hard is like you tried very but still not good and end up nothing. Your always tired and not enjoyed your work. You must work smart it is a less tired, more enjoyable work and healthier mind and body.

The problem with the working hard vs. working smart  is that all too often we frame the choice as one in which we can only choose "hard" or "smart." The question we should be asking is, why aren't we doing both?

I think the definition of working smart is not about allocating more time to doing a job. Working smart is an effort to balance the whole line of life so that it will bring a positive impact on productivity.

For me to make our lives more efficient we have to combine working smart at the same time working hard. Those two factors are the ones we needed to have a successful growth in our career at the same time in managing our own investments. So it should be combination of two.

success was started from luck
lucky = talent + opportunity, accompanied by hard work
hard work with talent and opportunities will turn into more smart work

I will be basing my opinion on my experienced. As I am working really hard this past year but realized that I havent even saved a lot. So just yesterday i filled an immediate resignation. Now I am trying to go back the life i made on bitcoin industry because actually I am gaining more before in here than my job salary.

So for me working smart is about taking chances and risk. But most of us are just too afraid to fail. Thats the reason why they remain silent and continue doing there boring job

our hard work must also have an intelligence in concluding something, and make a decision. everyone needs both. And if my experience works hard it also requires smart work

I definitely agree with your ideas and thoughts but for me if you work hard you are also working smarter....  Why because you know that if you work hardly it will not only help you to earn more but also it will help you to learn more....  For me it is not a big problem if you work hard but in return you recieved low salary the point is.... What you work will not be wasted because it will really boost your knowledge and probably it will keep you to develop more...  Unlike you are working only because you just only want to become rich....  That's impossible.... Working smart is really good but work fairly also....  Dont ever think that for you to earn a lots you will make something even it is illegal just only to earn....  If you want to succeed work smarter and as well as work harder....