Is smart work really for everyone?

[(Hummus)]

We are all familiar with the phrase or statement "WORK SMART NOT HARD" but the fact is that this isn't going to work for eveyone. If you are someone that's trying to build wealth from ground zero or from scratch you need to work hard because you are building from nothing. A lot of wealthy people only talk about working smart because they are speaking from their point of view, the ones that built from the bottom worked hard and when they finally got to that point where they want to be they sustain it by working smart. A lot of people are not making progress because they are applying smart work when they are supposed to be working hard. what's your opinion on this?

[Joy_learns_crypto]

We are all familiar with the phrase or statement "WORK SMART NOT HARD" but the fact is that this isn't going to work for eveyone. If you are someone that's trying to build wealth from ground zero or from scratch you need to work hard because you are building from nothing. A lot of wealthy people only talk about working smart because they are speaking from their point of view, the ones that built from the bottom worked hard and when they finally got to that point where they want to be they sustain it by working smart. A lot of people are not making progress because they are applying smart work when they are supposed to be working hard. what's your opinion on this?

Those richest men, do you think they are not hardworking people? If you can know what they are doing throughout the day in one week, you will see how they are also working hard.

There will be some rich people that do not sleep fast just because they want everything to be in good sharp for their businesses not to turn into something they will not like.

I understand your point because those that work most are not rich or not rich up to wealthy people, intelligence is very important if you want to make money, but hardwork is a necessity if you want to make it in life.

The quote above gives a profound answer to your question, it is falsehood to think that the wealthy people aren't working hard, listen to their interviews many of them have sleepless night working relentlessly hard they work as or even harder than they unwind.
The clear reasoning is that you need to work smart and hard at every stage of life, working smart is not so easy.

[Soldroplet]

When building something from scratch, you cannot always move forward with intelligence alone, but hard work, patience, and consistency are also very important. Many times, when you see a person succeeding, you want to follow their current position, but you forget how many years of hard work the person who succeeded had to reach that place, or you don't even try to find out.
Suppose someone starts a new business, at the beginning, he or she has to learn, work, correct mistakes if they make mistakes, come back from mistakes, and try to earn money at the same time. At this time, if you just try to find strategies to get more results with less effort, the foundation may not be built. On the other hand, as experience increases with hard work, people gradually understand which work is more fruitful and which work is a waste of time. Success cannot be ensured by working hard alone, and it is not easy to create something big from scratch by working intelligently. Therefore, if you work intelligently, work honestly, and if you can reach people well and gain their trust, you will be a successful person.
Tony Elumelu's says, Intelligence or good opportunities alone are not enough to achieve great things in life; This also requires hard work, discipline, and a mindset of making sacrifices when necessary. TOE’s Life Lessons

[YOSHIE]

Is smart work really for everyone?

Depending on the work being done, basically smart work requires a foundation, experience regarding access to resources such as systems, technology, efficiency gaps, patterns to achieve the direction of efficient smart work, It's not the same as hard work, meaning that smart work can't be said to be done or applied by everyone, it requires things like what I said above.

Example: smart jobs that can produce an independent economy, such as those who can master fields such as Mechanics and machinery repairer, Digital marketing specialist, Web & technology developer, Big data specialist, Process automation specialist, E-commerce, Robotics engineer and many others can be described as smart jobs.
Everyone I mentioned above who has expertise in this field can get creative economy income from the skills they have, so not everyone can do all that.

[Homemade-IQ]

. what's your opinion on this?

When you here if the word hard work, I believe that the first thing that comes to your mind is strong work, like physical work, but that's the deception there because working hard means than you are always proactive in doing things that aid to the growth of your job or business. 

Then as for smart work that you are talking of, it is more of being smart and making your money work for you, not by too much physical effort, so as for the question asked in the op post, I think that everyone can work smart as long as he is willing to learn.

[BitBakerr1]

Working very hard and working very smart comes together, if you want to succeed, you need to work hard and apply Wisdom, applying the wisdom is the working of smart people are talking about.
If you work only hard without applying Wisdom you will not achieve anything good, for you to achieve something good and wonderful you need to apply Wisdom in every work you do and when you apply Wisdom, you will be seen as working smart.

Working smart does not mean a different thing, working smart means applying wisdom when working hard, hope you understand.
If you most succeed you most apply the 2.

[Kiddo15]

We are all familiar with the phrase or statement "WORK SMART NOT HARD" but the fact is that this isn't going to work for eveyone. If you are someone that's trying to build wealth from ground zero or from scratch you need to work hard because you are building from nothing. A lot of wealthy people only talk about working smart because they are speaking from their point of view, the ones that built from the bottom worked hard and when they finally got to that point where they want to be they sustain it by working smart. A lot of people are not making progress because they are applying smart work when they are supposed to be working hard. what's your opinion on this?

Wether your creating wealth, or you've already attained wealth, just work smart, this is because smartness will reduce your workload, if you should create wealth from the beginning, you have to be smart to even do that, however working hard for me would be, working smart and keep going till you hit your target 🎯. The world has evolved, that thing that looked like an extra workload which needs extreme power to get it done, there are modern ways to go about it now, if you apply an old method to a new problem, you just see yourself struggling, in all you do, look for a easier route to get this done, but don't be fraudulent about it.

[sergiorus]

We are all familiar with the phrase or statement "WORK SMART NOT HARD" but the fact is that this isn't going to work for eveyone. If you are someone that's trying to build wealth from ground zero or from scratch you need to work hard because you are building from nothing. A lot of wealthy people only talk about working smart because they are speaking from their point of view, the ones that built from the bottom worked hard and when they finally got to that point where they want to be they sustain it by working smart. A lot of people are not making progress because they are applying smart work when they are supposed to be working hard. what's your opinion on this?

''Working smart'' is a white collar thing. If you're a blue collar, to work harder is usually the main or even the only way to make more money.

If a blue collar starts ''working smarter'', they become white collar or enterpreneurs. E.g. if you acquire enough clients and start outsourcing them or giving the jobs to other people for a % from what they make, you become an enterpreneur.

[Hewlet]

A lot of people are not making progress because they are applying smart work when they are supposed to be working hard. what's your opinion on this?

If you don't know the definition of a thing and the context that it usage always finds application, it is normal to think wrong about wrong. do you know that even the use of artificial intelligence to automate processes is another way of working smart? No matter what you are doing and even though you are building a thing from the zero level, you need to work smart and put in the extra effort which is what is generally looked at as working hard.

You can work hard in a smart way and get a better result than someone that is merely hard working but not innovative enough to come up with ideas that will produce same result but in a faster interval of time. the world is getting more competitive nd there are a lot of smart ways of getting things done especially the redundant ones. you cant afford to continue doing things the old way.

[PostQuantumBTC]

We are all familiar with the phrase or statement "WORK SMART NOT HARD" but the fact is that this isn't going to work for eveyone. If you are someone that's trying to build wealth from ground zero or from scratch you need to work hard because you are building from nothing. A lot of wealthy people only talk about working smart because they are speaking from their point of view, the ones that built from the bottom worked hard and when they finally got to that point where they want to be they sustain it by working smart. A lot of people are not making progress because they are applying smart work when they are supposed to be working hard. what's your opinion on this?

Working smart is the most important and not working hard. In my country, the people that work the hardest are the lowest rich people. In fact they are poor people, unlike people that are working smart. In this life you just have to be very smart for you to make it in life. For some people, working hard does not mean the person is not working smart, maybe that is where you are getting it wrong.

[Stepstowealth]

A lot of people are not making progress because they are applying smart work when they are supposed to be working hard. what's your opinion on this?

People who work smart are not putting in less effort than the people who working hard, they are just being smarter about it. Hard work sometimes comes at the detriment of your physical health, or something that requires a lot of your physical energy but smarter work requires more of your brain power and less physical work which means that you could still make good amount of money if you have enough brain power and not enough physical power to work as hard as those who have the physical power to work hard. If I'm given the option of working smart and working hard I will choose working smart because I believe people who work smart get to live longer But people will work hard get to face health challenges later from the effects of putting their health on the line for a very long period of time from physical hard work.

[Chilwell]

We are all familiar with the phrase or statement "WORK SMART NOT HARD" but the fact is that this isn't going to work for eveyone. If you are someone that's trying to build wealth from ground zero or from scratch you need to work hard because you are building from nothing. A lot of wealthy people only talk about working smart because they are speaking from their point of view, the ones that built from the bottom worked hard and when they finally got to that point where they want to be they sustain it by working smart. A lot of people are not making progress because they are applying smart work when they are supposed to be working hard. what's your opinion on this?

Working smart is the most important and not working hard. In my country, the people that work the hardest are the lowest rich people. In fact they are poor people, unlike people that are working smart. In this life you just have to be very smart for you to make it in life. For some people, working hard does not mean the person is not working smart, maybe that is where you are getting it wrong.

Working smart is very important but you know that you have to make a way for that smartness to occur, it is very difficult for you to work smart if you don't have means of doing that, and that is why some people work hard to bring out the smart in them, anytime we come across those people just because of their journey we address them as the smart people.

Many people will not understand what I try to explain, I see everyone as a smart person but the issue is that it all depends on how we build ourselves, there are people who are opportunity to have money but due to lack of smartness they misuse the opportunity. Some people have a lot of ideas in their head but to bring it out they need the capital, that is when some of them go into hard work and from there they begin to build themselves gradually with their own earn money. This is how I see someone as the smart person.

Not all people that are going into hard work or hard labor are having a wrong thought, some of them have plans that through there they can be able to arrive at the destination they are dreaming of, so we should not underestimate anyone we see doing that particular job, because the position will found ourselves in is just an opportunity, if that same person have our opportunity, honestly some of them will be a bigger than the way we are now.

[noorman0]

In short, not everyone can become successful. It is not simply a matter of working hard or being smart. Economics professors may be more knowledgeable about theory, but they are not as sharp as those operating in the real world.

Wealthy people do not do the work themselves; instead, they hire intelligent people.

[Opiate32]

A lot of people are not making progress because they are applying smart work when they are supposed to be working hard. what's your opinion on this?

Working smart does not really mean working less especially when you are starting from zero. When you don’t have money or connection you may have to work hard just to create the opportunity to start working smart. The advantage is that once you learn what works and have something to build on then you can start replacing effort with better decisions.

The stage you are at will  determine how much of which one you need, either smart work or hard work.

[Cheema02]

We are all familiar with the phrase or statement "WORK SMART NOT HARD" but the fact is that this isn't going to work for eveyone. If you are someone that's trying to build wealth from ground zero or from scratch you need to work hard because you are building from nothing. A lot of wealthy people only talk about working smart because they are speaking from their point of view, the ones that built from the bottom worked hard and when they finally got to that point where they want to be they sustain it by working smart. A lot of people are not making progress because they are applying smart work when they are supposed to be working hard. what's your opinion on this?

It's very controversial to say that every success comes from hard work alone, or, in parallel, it's also wrong to say that smart work is the only way to success. Which side do you support hardworking or smart working? I think that to build a successful empire we must start from zero, so obviously, we need a lot of hard work to gain experience and skills in our field, then we will be able to achieve financial stability. Here the question is that how can we work smartly without putting in any effort?

According to my suggestions, the best solution is the combination of both smart and hard work. To become ultra-rich or get hardworking success is not enough, because if success is just hard work, then the labors are fall into the elite class right now, but that is not the case. So, here the hardworking sense is used to working hard to get new skills which meets the current world and trying to grow ourselves every moment and research deep on our goals and business, then we can get rich and financially stable.

[Mate2237]

In short, not everyone can become successful. It is not simply a matter of working hard or being smart. Economics professors may be more knowledgeable about theory, but they are not as sharp as those operating in the real world.

Wealthy people do not do the work themselves; instead, they hire intelligent people.

Everyone has what it takes to become successful but not everyone would become successful, that's a fact, the reason for this is because not everyone is willing to put in the work to achieve this and some people wouldn't be able to get to this height because they refuse to gain knowledge. To become successful in anything you need to be patient enough to give some time to learning.


When it comes to what wealthy people look at I think skill is at the top of their priority list, intelligence is also good but having technical skills is more profitable because this is what produces more results, this is the reason why a lot of employers ask their employees how many years of experience they have on the job that they apply for, we now live in a world where you must not only learn, or gain knowledge and stop there, you must also know how to apply it.

[stompix]

We are all familiar with the phrase or statement "WORK SMART NOT HARD" but the fact is that this isn't going to work for eveyone. If you are someone that's trying to build wealth from ground zero or from scratch you need to work hard because you are building from nothing.

It has nothing to do with wealth!
This is about not hitting your head against a tree when you need to use an axe for it!
Don't jump for 2 hours trying in vain to dust the ceiling, use a damn chair!

This is not about someone working in the field versus someone doing trades for a million!
Better try to understand what things mean before trying to fish for merits!

''Working smart'' is a white collar thing. If you're a blue collar, to work harder is usually the main or even the only way to make more money.
If a blue collar starts ''working smarter'', they become white collar or enterpreneurs. E.g. if you acquire enough clients and start outsourcing them or giving the jobs to other people for a % from what they make, you become an enterpreneur.

No, it has nothing to do with your job, it has everything to do with how you're doing your job.
A white-collar worker who writes down the same text 100 times and then prints it instead of hitting print 100 copies is not working smart at all, a guy using a winch to lift bricks 50 stories high instead of carrying them one by one on the staircase is working smart!

[Cryptomultiplier]

Smart work is for everyone that understands how and what it means by working smart, because in reality smart work is an evolved state from hardwork that has gained the position to make things and the system built through hardwork last.

One has to actually earn the right to smart work after they have become masters of their craft and skills, after they have invested enough effort to grow the business and build cash reserves and have a proper understanding of how things work.
Smart work is nothing more than employing better tools and using automated systems to make work efficient and more productive and it is what makes decisions easier when better systems are involved to ease the burden of hardwork.

[sergiorus]

a guy using a winch to lift bricks 50 stories high instead of carrying them one by one on the staircase is working smart!

That's not ''working smart'', that's ''utilising the technology''. And as a blue-collar, your productivity is limited to the technology your employer provides. Or, in case of a self-employed blue-collar, the technology you can afford.

Unless you invent your own technology that would increase the productivity of your blue-collar labour, but the paradox is that in that case ''working smart'' would mean to patent it and start selling it, thus, becoming a white-collar.

[Royal Cap]

We are all familiar with the phrase or statement WORK SMART NOT HARD but the fact is that this isn't going to work for eveyone.

To me, smart work and hard work are not actually opposites of each other. Starting from scratch, there are fewer options for hard work, but where you put that hard work is also important. Making the same mistake over and over again can be hard work but progress may not come.

A lot of wealthy people only talk about working smart because they are speaking from their point of view, the ones that built from the bottom worked hard and when they finally got to that point where they want to be they sustain it by working smart.

Here I will say that creating wealth and maintaining wealth are not the same kind of work. It takes more time, patience and consistent effort in the beginning and later better decisions can become more important.

A lot of people are not making progress because they are applying smart work when they are supposed to be working hard.

This is the biggest problem of the our generation. Many people think that they can become successful overnight by just applying their intelligence without any hard work. And then they take smart work as a shortcut, but no shortcut can completely replace basic skills and time to learn.