Working smart vs working hard (an ultimate guide)

[sachdientugoogle]

Sure, to-do lists make us more productive, so does grouping the tasks into batches and prioritizing them,” but that does not mean you will get them done to completion in the time frame you allotted or that whatever you are batching won’t end up taking over your day. The more you time yourself, and gain more self-awareness into how long a particular type of task takes you, the more time you will be able to actually identify and re-purpose in your schedule.

[ryanto siyanto]

Seeing this topic is a video that illustrates the difference between hard work and smart work. here is the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtddJ-zDga0
I agree as human beings we have to choose to work smart instead of working hard only. Because humans have physical limits. Humans who work smart will enjoy the results in the old age later.

[zngit]

Big points buddy. It seems you teach in the school regarding personality development. Actually it is part of development of one personality. Everyone have uniqueness, strength, and weaknesses that we always deal in every moment in our life if it will struck us. So, working smart and working hard is not contradicting to each other but partners in every environment and time in one's life and it is inside the decision.

[Jessica1234]

These two are different, but we should apply it both. Being working smart is being knowlegable about what you are doing and wise about what he really need to do first. While working hard is being strong and passionate about what you are doing that it takes discipline for you to attain this.

[Indai24]

These two are different, but we should apply it both. Being working smart is being knowlegable about what you are doing and wise about what he really need to do first. While working hard is being strong and passionate about what you are doing that it takes discipline for you to attain this.

For me they are the very most important for the road to success and yes you're right these two should come along together. If you want to be successful in the long run you have to put long hours into work, start early before all other people and stay up late while others are enjoying already. However you have to be smart as well while working so hard inorder to achieve your goal, you have to stay curious and don't stop learning.

[Bitlord88]

You are 100% right. I completely agree that people should work smart everytime. Life is unfair and there is no way to refute that, that's why we all need to find a strategy or if not a loophole in the system to make our place in life a notch higher. One must use brains and adapt depending on the environment and factors around him or her. Sometimes even those with fewer resources came up to rise as they know how to play their cards and not just take life as a shotgun shot. Work smart and play hard and no drama, that's what I follow in work.

[rarg]

I prefer to working smart rather than working hard. For example, as a bounty hunter, we have to research the project before joining their campaign. It's a smart move. Because I see a lot of hunters applied all campaign as much as possible without analyzing the project. It will be wasting their time if the project turns into a scam.

[heleng05]

I also agree to prefer of working smart than working hard because it can change your mind, you know. I mean you can get stressed of working so hard and all people can experience that like what happened to me in my last job I almost work a 14 hours a day to double my money earnings that's why I feel so sicked and tired in that days I always sleep 3 to 4 hours only and I don't want to be like that again working so hard.

[richjohn]

Working smartly is the key to be successful in life these days. You should know when and where you should put your efforts. Over doing a task with not much monetary value will only exhaust you and won't be fruitful. You should be able to prioritize tasks and then work smartly to achieve the desired results.

[mahilchii]

There is nothing hard here in earning Bitcoin or any coin and it is purely smart work which will yield you profit or ways to earn I believe. Hard work alone will not help you if you do without a smart work. After all a little bit of luck also need to favor your work together.

[green bottle blue]

Working smartly is the key to be successful in life these days. You should know when and where you should put your efforts. Over doing a task with not much monetary value will only exhaust you and won't be fruitful. You should be able to prioritize tasks and then work smartly to achieve the desired results.

For me being smart can help you do your job smoothly. Hardwork on the other way is needed in doing your job smartly. They are both interconnected that needs to be balance in achieving positive outcome in our works success.

[Piggymonster]

Working hard means working deligently and dedicatedly, you have to put long hours into work, start early, and stay up late  while working smart is working faster and more efficiently. To achieve a work-life balance, work smarter not harder, gain self awareness about your work style and you can find ways to work smarter.

[ethereumhunter]

I think if we can use working smart, we can work with effective and we can use the other time to do another task. not all work needs to work hard but if we can do work smart then I think it is better to for our jobs especially if in our jobs need some requirements to finish the jobs. I prefer with working smart because with this, I can do many tasks in short time and I can use the other time to search another job and finish at the right time.

[shesheboy]

I think if we can use working smart, we can work with effective and we can use the other time to do another task. not all work needs to work hard but if we can do work smart then I think it is better to for our jobs especially if in our jobs need some requirements to finish the jobs. I prefer with working smart because with this, I can do many tasks in short time and I can use the other time to search another job and finish at the right time.

So in short your are chosing both work hard and working smart. working hard is totay different from working smart because in working hard you only work as much as possible, you dont need to be smart in order to work hard all you need is time and work force. while working smart on ther hand requires a lot of mind force or critical thinking in order to do the task properly. in my case im on the working hard side because i need much job or sideline job as many as possible in order to sustain my families needs everyday.

[Rosscy]

My opinion about it are
Working Smart, requires:
- Science / Skill as a supporting work
- Good thought analysis
- Can quickly draw conclusions
- Anti mainstream, you see an opportunity that is not seen by many people

Working Hard, usually:
- Persistence
- Discipline, usually always have a routine work agenda
- Main Stream, taking generally a chance by many people

I prefer to work smart, it is more professional, so the job that he takes in accordance with his capabilities and will have more time to do other things. As for the results of success all need a process and of course everyone will get it.

[pat4cryptoreal]

I do not agree that working hard or working smart can bring financial success but I think financial success is a function of meeting the right people and having access to the right information.

[really01]

At work, trying to do everything well, it is very good. However, I will find out to make it faster and simpler. Of course, when I do a good job, my manager will give me more work. Since then I was a person who can do the useful for the company, so I will have the right to negotiate and communicate with my new way of doing things for others.

[Elsie123]

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?


Below I will be posting replies which I consider most relevant, revealing and insightful on the topic discussed.

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You have a point man. Actually I have been hearing this sort of argument even when I was still a child. My father will always tell us to work smart, and make money out of money. And when I grow up, I did work hard, but I later realized that I don't want to be worker that long. I need something to help me became financial stable in the future. So I decided to quit my job, put my offline business. Although I still need to wake up early and oversee everything, I did enjoy what I'm doing and the best thing, I'm the boss. LOL. But there's some kind of element in luck as well. I don't know but I felt that I'm just lucky because suddenly I gain financial freedom and then when I discovered bitcoin, it give me another leeway, more funds for me to channel to my business. So I say that you have to make the right decision + element of luck = success in your life. You have to be in the right place at the right time.

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Even when we have heard several talks about working smart, but a lot of people are still work hard thinking that someone will have to teach them to work smart or they are thinking they are working smart. Quite a number of times, I am always taken aback when I begin to imagine what people spend their time on to earn money, struggle, use their strength but nothing to show for it while they are left with no other option than to believe in miracles in other to come out of penury. However, working smart is not something that falls on you or easy to come by, rather its a conscious effort to break away from the shackles of poverty with constant research and education, you are sure to work smart and be financially independent.

What do you mean by working smarter?

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 don't think that relying on luck is smart. It is truly risky. I think that smart work is rather about thorough development of the ideas, high level of rational success predictability, not luck attraction.

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.

I also think you are wrong when you talk about luck. Because your boss (and those of very large companies) are perfectly aware that they are in such position thanks to their luck. So they tend to close their network, to make golden paths that lead to domination... and are completely unaccessible for anyone out of their private "leading sphere".

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.

You have a point man. Actually I have been hearing this sort of argument even when I was still a child. My father will always tell us to work smart, and make money out of money. And when I grow up, I did work hard, but I later realized that I don't want to be worker that long. I need something to help me became financial stable in the future.

[jakagintiri]

Because now is the modern age, where life is short and you feel time passes when you do little, when you work smart, you tend to produce brilliant solutions and manage your time very well. As a result, you can have plenty of time to get along with other people.
A healthy mind will produce a good job. If you want to work efficiently without forcing yourself too hard, you have to start learning smart work.

[Baidhawi_qushayyi]

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, we will be defeated by others who work smart and hard work as well