Quote from: Hell-raiser on March 09, 2018, 08:29:54 AM

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?

This is an interesting question to discuss. Working smart is at least more pleasant than working hard and I believe that it is also generally more profitable. However, 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.

Quote from: yunzau on March 09, 2018, 12:17:31 PM

My opinion about these two things is that smart work works with the mind to use with little effort. While hard work works to use more time and extra effort for the same results. But in the modern era where internet is increasingly used for all activities I agree to work smarter in order to use a more productive time.

Smart working requires less time and less effort, but imo it's about physical effort being reduced, while it is perhaps even more exhausting for our mind, since on its work depends our success.