Do You Work Hard?

 

I want to start by asking this question, do you work hard? If your answer is yes. So what is hard? You will say the hardest because you think i want to hear it. Noting comes easy and behind every success are hours of plain hard work. Sounds intimidating, but Richard St. John proposes a simple shift in attitude to turn mediocre into incredible. Another question i would want us to consider is, do we work hard or work smart? The dichotomy 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 ourselves is, why aren't we doing both?

Our culture's reverence of hard work hearkens back to the ideals of America's first settlers, who possessed a tireless work ethic and self-denying humility. This core mentality persisted for over three centuries of American history, as we built outward from an agrarian society and became the world's industrial leader. But in our transition to a service economy and particularly during the digital revolution of the past quarter-century we began to see the primacy of hard work as a relic of the analog, industrial past and started teaching our children to work smarter, not harder.

Growing up on the doctrine of "smarter, not harder" has had its advantages for many in younger generations. By trusting technology and prioritizing time-efficiency, we've become adept at multitasking and capable of creative, entrepreneurial thinking. From our youth, we've been trained to never be satisfied with the conventional ways of doing things and to keep looking for that better mousetrap.

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