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.
One should be smart enough to know where to do the hard work in order to achieve the success or the desired goal. If everywhere you keep working hard and not getting results means their is some flaw in the system or in our self and we need to know that so exactly we can focus on our work and work hardly to achieve it.
Yes, I support this view. You should be smart to realize that you are basically wasting your time, not receiving what you consider worth the effort applied. It seems to be a prerequisite for changing your approach or attitude toward your work. But in this thread it is kinda assumed, meaning we all want more for less. With that in mind, I daresay that the fault or deficiency is always inside of us even if working smart requires changing your environment completely, like changing your job. In other words, we would still need some internal disagreement or dissatisfaction with the status quo, while the lack of this dissatisfaction, or not enough of it, is that deficiency in this particular case.
All your topics and posts are great for insights and knowledge as a reference to how we succeed in working.