Hard work:-Read - Learn - Understand do the rehersal and then

actaul task to bring the result. ( most of the beginners do it.)Smart

work:-Get the work done from the begineers ! :)

According to me hard work is the work done by reading learning and then
executing it and putting our best in it but smart work is the work done by
including our intelligence in it and doing ordinary things in a extraordinary
work.

According to me the difference between hard work and

smart work is a s follows.....................

Hard work is one that which may or may not be completed in

time but atlast drives the answer from the work and it is
done with correctness even though it takes time the work is
done.

Smart work is considered to be completed in time that is

within the given time but hard work will be completed may
or may not be within the given time span.

In IT companies smart work is preferred rather than hard

work people want the work to be completed in time even
though u r a hardworking guy/gal.

Hard Work Vs Smart Work..

It’s always a big question in the Industry where I am

working, or is it a common phenomenon? People, who do
work as a duty, or rather as an obligation try to drag it till
the end and end up in the swirl of procrastination. That
embarks a journey of crib club..

If you work for what you believe, its not hard work! You will
consider it hard work when it becomes an obligation. Alas,
we don’t find entrepreneurs in every day of life, at least to
the nonobservant eye. Probably they are the same people
whom we tease as hard workers or the one who don’t find
time to take for themselves. What we may not realize is that
their enjoyment lies in work. A typical phenomenon I observe
is that people believe that they work for their ends and there
exists a fine line between personal enjoyment and
professional work. Ask what effects personal enjoyment? I
have strong objection to people who resign themselves to 12
hours of long work the moment they enter office campus.
Neither do I have respect for canteen mongers, or the
shirkers who pretend to work only when their boss lands at
their cubicle.

One should have a balanced approach to work. Even if I love

my job, there are certain finer aspects for which I pay
attention to. Probably it’s my fav music, a book by bed side,
a morning workout at the local gym or a walk by the wild
side. That’s where smart work comes in. Engaging mind and
body in what we love to do every moment. As my boss
quotes often, “if you got no mood to work, don’t work lady.
Coz U will spend 8 hours miserably doing what you can finish
off in a couple of hours!” Quite true indeed! In this high
tension world, where struggle for life is quite evident in
every walk of life, one should realize oneself to the full
potential. Being smart, managing priorities in the
deliverables, intelligently balancing different aspects of life,
being focused on career and emotional balance helps in a
big way! Keeping a sense of humour about oneself and
wearing heart on sleeve helps too.

Hard Work vs Smart WorkV

iews on WorkAs you know whenever we talk of views there

can be two views – for and against.Let us take work for
instance. The Key to lasting joy is to work hard :Academics
of the Gothenburg University in Sweden have com up with
an interesting proposition : hard work is the only path to
happiness. Their research, conducted over three years,
shows that money, love and success bring only temporary
joy, whereas the effort taken to achieve goals provides
lasting satisfaction. The researchers have pitted their
findings against the claims of the tourism industry. Which
tells the potential customers that a break from work is the
best way to be happy. You needn't be an Einstein or a Max
Weber to know that the Swedes have made a "bulls eye"
shot.Happiness can't be bought with money, neither can the
leisure industry sell it. Happiness has to be earned by
pursuing it in meaningful ways, and what is meaningful
varies from person to person. For a scientist, the
engagement with a scientific problem is the most meaningful
aspect of his existence. In the case of a writer, it is his
struggle with words, plots, images, ideas that define
happiness. A musician discovers joy when he manages to
express himself in his music. In each case. the journey is
what matters and not the destination. Taking a break from
whatever it is you've been doing will probably make you feel
apprehensive. All your fears about how much you have to
get done, you're wasting time, what if I don't want to go
back to doing this, are likely to surface. It's a natural
reaction, but the fear is usually much worse than the reality.
Work becomes a tyranny for a person when it becomes a
chore, forced by eternal factors and conditions. It then
ceases to be a pursuit of happiness. In our times, the
dialectic between work and happiness is very often
misunderstood. When the link between the two is ruptured,
we try to find a solution elsewhere. We try to heal the
symptoms while leaving the cause unattended.The idea of a
holiday as a break from work refuses to recognize that
happiness can be found in work. Tourism industry plays on
this confusion and offers leisure as a solace to those in
pursuit of happiness. Could Kalidasa have preferred an idle
weekend in the Himalayas to chasing the cloud in his
imagination while writing Megha Sandesha ? Or would
Michael Angelo have traded his love for marble with sailing
no the Adriatic . Sometimes you just need to take a break or
have a rest from what you're doing and your inspiration may
well come back. This break also allows you to re-assess
what you've been doing and not doing. Perhaps then you'll
see there are some changes you want to make, perhaps
deciding to implement a different strategy or action plan.
Taking a break will mean different things to different people
and you need to determine for yourself what this break will
be. Perhaps, you'll decide take a day or a week off work, to
play and have fun. Or you may decide to go for a brisk walk.
I'm even inclined to suggest to you that, while taking this
break, you tell yourself that you're not allowed to do or think
about anything related to work or whatever it is that you're
taking a break from. It's surprising how much most of us
react to being told we can't do or have something. The
rebellious part of us often surfaces and wants to fight it.You
need to trust yourself, face up to the fears and know that
you can handle any situation. After a break, you'll feel
refreshed and when you feel refreshed, your enthusiasm and
inspiration will return. Then, you'll be ready to start moving
forward again.The counter view…All work and no play makes
Jack a Dull boy…The oft venerated construct of hard work
being the true key happiness – and by logical extension
,personal achievement – is an age old conspiracy painfully
foisted upon succeeding generations. To cite and odious
example of how this ethic was pushed to an extreme, the
Nazi death camp at Auschwitz had the words Arbeit Macht
Frei (Work Makes You Free) carved out at its gate. But, of
course, this is an extreme case of intellectual subversion .
The point is too much of work really makes jack a Dull boy.
A state of laconic disengagement from everyday routine is
vital for creativity, and of course happiness. Now, by no
means is the merit of good old "hard work" being dismissed
outright. As anyone who appeared ill-prepared for an
examination will testify, the only sweat could effectively
replace that uniquely bitter-sweet agony. But what
proponents of monotonic `work is worship' credo also refuse
to see is that much great human achievement, and certainly
the more beautiful of the lot, has largely come from a
statement of detachment and leisurely contemplation.
Indeed, even great scientific breakthroughs have been born
of this condition.Yet Thomas Alva Edison, for very long the
"99% perspiration' poster boy for the rigorous work ethic, is
projected far too often to students as an example of hard
work. This is sad. Further, with great art exactly how much
went into the inspiration of, and perspiration for, the
masterpieces? Indeed, which path would hard work follow if
inspiration had not pointed the way?These are questions well
worth pondering for a country that venerates both the life
and teachings of Krishna the gleefully playful God for whom
happiness was to be found in the abandon of pure worship.
And to push the argument further up by advocating the
stepping up to a higher state of happiness, one need only
refer to Bertrand Russell's essay. In Praise of Idleness. Do
read it at leisure. The Recommended Work not just hard, but
hard and smartI'll not be the first nor the last person in the
world who would tell you not to work hard. I'll also not be
the first one nor the last one to remind you that working
hard must also be tempered by working smart, or you might
just be wasting a load of effort. There is a reason why we
were born with both muscles and brains.Consider the story
of two lumberjacks in a tree-cutting contest. Both were
strong and determined, hoping to win the prize. But one was
hardworking and ambitious, chopping down every tree in his
path at the fastest pace possible, while the other appeared
to be a little more laid back, methodically felling trees and
pacing himself. The go-getter worked all day, skipping his
lunch break, expecting that his superior effort would be
rewarded. His opponent, however, took an hour-long lunch,
then resumed his steady pace. In the end, the eager beaver
was dismayed to lose to his "lazier" competition. Thinking he
deserved to win after his hard work, he finally approached
his opponent and said, "I just don't understand. I worked
longer and harder than you, and went hungry to get ahead.
You took a break, and yet you still won. It just doesn't seem
fair. Where did I go wrong?" The winner responded, "While I
was taking my lunch break, I was sharpening my axe."Hard
work will always pay off; smart work will pay better.
Remember the days when you were a student, there must
have been kids who worked hard studied all day and all
night, but still had to struggle to pass exams, get the
percentages? On the other hand you would have seen there
would have been some more kids who would have also
studied hard yet, also found time for a game of cricket or
football or table tennis or basketball, or any other game to
cool it off, and still aced in every test, they appeared. Both,
these sets of students studied the same material, attended
the same lectures taught by the same professors, and took
the same test, yet, there is a difference in the out-come.
You will find this well even in the workplace.There are some
who work very hard, night and day, Saturday and Sunday
too, and there are a set of people who just put in that many
hours needed and smartly, take off early in the evening to
catch some leisure – games or gym, stay put on weekends
go out on drives, weekend holidays, movies fun friends and
games. Is the second group of people just that much more
brilliant? Maybe, but my money's on the way they
approached their material and learned how to deliver the
goods. They were smart, they applied those same principles
after graduation, when they got into a career and work.The
Principle they applied was : Not only work hard, but also
work smart.I end this essay with Harvey Mackay's MoralIt's
good to work hard. It's great to work smart. But it's best to
work hard and smart

Hard work: A person using same old skills and techniques

for doing routine /regular work targeting to complete
everyday in the same given 9 hours a day is a hard worker.
A hard worker is someone who does not use his head much
and just believes in doing whatever work assigned in the
alotted time.

Smart work: Thinking how well the same routine or new

work can be done with less resources/time and upgrading
your skills/techniques also making yourself available for few
other work as well.

It is always good to be a smart worker,because a smart

worker is always assumed to be knowing how well a work
can be done,any how goal must be achieved. It does not
necessarily mean that a smart worker will not put in long
hours if required. It is the dexterity with which the work is
handled and done makes it so much desirable. But a smart
worker need not mean someone trying to avoid
responsibility or doing cheap work to finish it fast.

Almost everyone has been brainwashed to accept (and pay lip

service to) the fallacious premise that hard work is necessary in order
to be successful. But the overwhelming evidence suggests the
contrary, that hard work has nothing to do with success and is
actually counterproductive. If hard work is supposed to produce
success, then it would stand to reason that everyone who works hard
should be successful. But that is far from the case. Most people who
work hard never come close to being successful. In fact, most hard
workers have a much higher incidence of non-success than they
have success. Financial strain, stress-related disease, and lack
personal fulfillment are at epidemic proportions, while wealth, health,
and happiness are rare in comparison.
There is a better way. That better way is, of course, The Lazy Way.
Instead of success resulting from hard work, the opposite is true, that success
is inversely proportional to hard work. In other words, more success comes
the less you work. The catch is in finding the proper way of avoiding work.
When you find that proper way, you are able to do less and accomplish
more.
I have suggested in previous posts that those delicious and highly effective
ways of doing less reveal themselves when you are blissfully avoiding work.
You can avoid work in any number of fruitful ways. Doing that which you
are passionate about is a wonderful way to avoid work. Another
recommended method of avoiding work is having a ball “playing” with a
concept or a project.
Yet, folks are so programmed into believing hard work has value that they
accuse me of using semantics to advance my argument. They say that when I
suggest that play or fun or passion are the ways to achieve success, I am
really just renaming “hard work” and calling it “play” or “fun” or “passion”
instead. They maintain that I am not saying anything other than “hard work
is necessary for success.”
All I can do is sigh. Hard work has clearly atrophied their brains
rendering them incapable of discriminating thought. These hard work
advocates refuse to entertain the possibility that another approach
may be better. If an argument is compelling (such as mine, for
example) they either condemn it as heresy (or some other crude
expression) or they cram it under their “hard work” umbrella. They
apparently see no difference between slaving away at a mindless,
pointless, stultifying job and advancing an exhilarating, laugh-filled,
creativity-stimulating enterprise. Both situations require hard work,
they conclude without a flicker of deep reflection.
When folks lump play, fun, and passionate pursuits in with rat-racing,
boring tasks, and hard labor and then insist hard work is the key to
success, you can be sure these folks have zero insight into what it
takes to be successful.
* * *
Unfortunately I have not been able to find a single suitable word in the
English language to describe what I am talking about. I use the word “lazy”
but, except for a few enlightened souls who see the cosmic value contained
within that word, laziness is generally regarded as a strictly negative trait. To
fill this void, I have tried to create phrases that come close to what I am
driving at. Some examples are smart lazy, effective lazy, and foxy lazy (for
Jimi Hendrix fans). The definition for this powerful insight into laziness
would be the ability to avoid work, yet still be able to get the job done and
become wildly successful as a result.
* * *

It’s always a big question in the Industry where I am

working, or is it a common phenomenon? People, who do
work as a duty, or rather as an obligation try to drag it till
the end and end up in the swirl of procrastination. That
embarks a journey of crib club..
If you work for what you believe, its not hard work! You will
consider it hard work when it becomes an obligation. Alas,
we don’t find entrepreneurs in every day of life, at least to
the nonobservant eye. Probably they are the same people
whom we tease as hard workers or the one who don’t find
time to take for themselves. What we may not realize is that
their enjoyment lies in work. A typical phenomenon I
observe is that people believe that they work for their ends
and there exists a fine line between personal enjoyment and
professional work. Ask what effects personal enjoyment? I
have strong objection to people who resign themselves to 12
hours of long work the moment they enter office campus.
Neither do I have respect for canteen mongers, or the
shirkers who pretend to work only when their boss lands at
their cubicle.
One should have a balanced approach to work. Even if I love
my job, there are certain finer aspects for which I pay
attention to. Probably it’s my fav music, a book by bed side,
a morning workout at the local gym or a walk by the wild
side. That’s where smart work comes in. Engaging mind and
body in what we love to do every moment. As my boss
quotes often, “if you got no mood to work, don’t work lady.
Coz U will spend 8 hours miserably doing what you can
finish off in a couple of hours!” Quite true indeed! In this
high tension world, where struggle for life is quite evident in
every walk of life, one should realize oneself to the full
potential. Being smart, managing priorities in the
deliverables, intelligently balancing different aspects of life,
being focused on career and emotional balance helps in a
big way! Keeping a sense of humour about oneself and
wearing heart on sleeve helps too.