Working smart vs working hard (an ultimate guide)

[futureofeth]

There are different types people some will work hard and some will work on the smart way but it depends on their mentality. Some people will work for more than 12 hrs but they won't make much money but some will work for only 3 to 4 hrs but they will make more money.

[torch2121]

Working smart. Most of the time I am the one choosing the job I do. Depends on the rate and asking if I can finish the task in a small time frame instead of 8 hours. Where I can convert those extra time to do other things and convert it to extra income. Generation today is much better compare to old generation. Its much better when you combine work smart and working hard as well. A much better income is generated.  

[IndzheborgC]

In order to work smarter you need to acquire knowledge, experience and skills. And often it turns out that all this comes when you do not need big money. It all depends on the abilities of a person - sometimes it's better to just work.

[zarados]

Therefore smart is not enough to be a successful and wealthy person. There are factors of continence, perseverance, and consistency. I agree if you say working hard as an office employee will only enrich the person above. But if you have your own business, you will need both, because the challenge you will face will be greater. So working smart and working hard is still a better combination.

[miltonpogi]

This two behavior has a big difference, because most of us think that if you want to become successful, you need to work hard, but for me working hard is not enough, you need also to have strategic thinking in order to have a clearer way and to be more progressive, working hard and smart is the best behavior ever, but the best part on this is you are learning through your own mistakes.

[eyebags1994]

When  you are employed then you need a hardwork to. Ake your boss empress at you and knowing that your hardwork name them rich not yours while if you are smart you are guaranteed to become wealthy. When you are smart you are for bitcoin.

[_noname_]

I won't completely consent to the definitions yet to some degree you are correct. Diligent work for me is to do anything in which you are not considering and doing it simply as per the way you did it the earlier day. While brilliant work is to consider how you are getting along the function and how that function should be possible all the more productively in more monetary path with lesser endeavors included. It implies that the innovative work are need to go towards the improvement.

[dvillier]

I won't completely consent to the definitions however to some degree you are correct. Diligent work for me is to do anything in which you are not considering and doing it simply as indicated by the way you did it the earlier day. While shrewd work is to consider how you are getting along the function and how that function should be possible all the more proficiently in more financial path with lesser endeavors included. It implies that the innovative work are need to go towards the improvement.

[stepwilli]

Many people working hard to get much money, they have lost all their time for their family by working hard in the company and many people leave their family looking for the job and working hard so far from their family, but the other side have the people have smart working by participated at the bitcoin and cryptocurency, and the can have the earning more than the hard work, so which one you choose for your work.

If we are talking about trading, naturally here working smart will be more effective. The best variant is to get the maximum information about the cryptoworld.

But I believe in a combo of both. One component alone can’t survive for long time where such huge competitions are present. Just see the local market how amazingly so many people are contributing towards something and by competing someone succeeded to grab maximum of money. Same is in the case of bitcoins trading, you have to be smart but hard worker too for better results.

[barontamago]

For me I want to work smart because we can be successful even we not work hard literally. We use our strategy and techniques to finish our work. Sometimes working hard benefits other people not ourselves so it is better to work smart.

[Hell-raiser]

Being smart is about making smart choices. Its about making the right decision, the right step or the right choice. Smart people move up the ladder real fast. They also are the ones that have great cars, lot of money, and everything else the rest of us desire.

And what does it tell us? Yes, it is all about making right choices and taking right steps just like turning up in the right place at the right time. We all know that. But this is theory, although I, and I think many others as well, would like to learn and hear more about practical steps with an appropriate level of abstraction and generalization so that they would be applicable to anyone. In other words, what you should do in practice that would count more toward working smart and less toward working hard. One approach I gave in OP, that is stick to places where your luck potential is at its highest.

I consider this thread a sort of practical guide toward working smarter.

[Hans17]

Working hard is different from working hard. Working smart is the act of using your brain to lighten your work. While working hard is your focusing all your strength in that certain work.

Well what's the difference though if those both workers are same income or profit? , For me it's better to working smart to have strategy , but I think it's the same though you will need to exert an maximum effort on the job you're taking, to have a better income, so I think there is no difference on this two.

[jakoylantern]

For me, I will choose working smart. Yes, many people thought that working hard it the key to a successful life yes they might right. But working smartly is the primary to way to becoming much successful and effective. But if indeed want to become a successful or wealthy person you most do both sides. In the nature of achieving your goals in life, you must work hard and work smartly to overcome the challenges that you will encounter. You must think intelligently to make it easy and work harder enough to attain it.   

[wuvdoll]

I usually do less work and tend to get works done. Bit lazy. I believe in both hard work and smart work. Both go half and half. Current generation expects to do smart work and yes they do work smart. As things are being invented to lessen the work, people have started looking at ways to complete the and get the works done much faster. Smart worker are really welcomed now a days than the hard worker if you look around.

We are in the smart age, so I do not expect people to not end up smart. They both go hand in hand as far as I am concerned anyway, you may be smart and lazy, but does that mean you being smart will take you anywhere ? On the other hand, you may not be smart and hardworking, but that can still take you somewhere.

Hence imagine, combining the two together, then that is where most people end up getting successful coupled with luck on their side. For instance, I may be smart, come up with brilliant ideas, but too lazy to push it out and think the world will just do it for me.

[amih]

In my opinion, placement in a verb hard does not mean that our perspective should continue to work. Because in terms of working smart I do not think there will be achievements in terms of fulfillment of a success without being supported by the idea of ​​working hard. It's just that people always assume that smart work is an activity that is done without energy and drain our energy. But basically if there is no mindset about how to work as hard as we can, we will not get a target that can be achieved.

[Saveplus]

In my opinion ,working smart would be beneficial to us,being hard working is not enough because theres a boss who always command and get mad when you do things not right.I am an employed person and sooner or later when I have more capital ,I want to put business and quit my job because of the management sometimes in the company did not treat their employee well.

[Hell-raiser]

well i think u need them both if only working hard only your boss will happy and if you only working smart but no hard working you cant achieved anything and if using both theres no doubt you can achieve what is your aiming for.

I agree that you will need both. Earning money in this world is easy once you have a good network of contacts and good capital, but at the beginning it's a nightmare.

Once we reach a certain point we can move towards passive income and work less, when we have a great amount of capital, and spend more time with family, travel and things like that. It all depends on what you want to do. If we worked hard and smart enough in some years we won't need to work anymore, you will then decide if you want to work for fun or do something else.

I know that the idea of working for fun sounds like crazy for a lot of people, but if you like what you do, then it's not so crazy.

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.

[bitcoinrays]

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

No matter which work you do, if you keep on using your brain wisely while working that task, you will be able to finish that work not only in lesser time but also using lesser efforts. I think of working smartly to be much better option than that of working hard as you can get your job done without much efforts. Working hard is also a good thing to do but you need to do the work smartly and efficiently.

[intoy_victor]

Both, a smart person is kind of being hard working.
Lot of smart person is are also a hard woking like study more and work more. How could a person being a smart if he/she is not hard working. Okay let's there are a born te be smart but I know they are hard working to be a successful someday.

[aencarnaci]

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.

I agree that you will need both. Earning money in this world is easy once you have a good network of contacts and good capital, but at the beginning it's a nightmare.

Once we reach a certain point we can move towards passive income and work less, when we have a great amount of capital, and spend more time with family, travel and things like that. It all depends on what you want to do. If we worked hard and smart enough in some years we won't need to work anymore, you will then decide if you want to work for fun or do something else.

I know that the idea of working for fun sounds like crazy for a lot of people, but if you like what you do, then it's not so crazy.

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.

I used to be the type of guy that will usually work hard all day ever since I got out of school, but by the end of the day I will either end up achieving less or nothing at all. Till one day, I was browsing through the net and came across a quote that says DO NOT WORK HARD, WORK WITH INTELLIGENCE. From then I stopped working hard, I stopped stressing out myself and stopped staying up late at nights. I started making use of my senses, I started being smart, and now I’m achieving a higher rate of success. This is just the beginning, I still have a long way to go.