#Smart Work

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Jeongguk using straws to help him exercise his vocals 🤧🥹😣

He's so cute and hardworking 💪

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[goodoldbandit]

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[babavikas]

My new blog talks about the importance of hard work for achieving success.

[itsmadhvi]

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[investorocean0007]

The terms "hard work" and "smart work" are often used to describe two distinct approaches to achieving success, productivity, or goals. Both have their advantages, but they also come with certain trade-offs. Here's a comparison of the two:

Hard Work

Definition: Hard work typically refers to putting in sustained effort, often over long periods of time, to accomplish something. It involves persistence, discipline, and sometimes sheer physical or mental effort. It is about putting in the hours and grinding through tasks.

Key Characteristics:

Persistence: Continuously working on tasks, even if the work is tedious or difficult.

Effort and Time: Focuses on putting in the required hours or labor, often regardless of the efficiency of the method.

Discipline: A strong work ethic and commitment to working hard, even when results are not immediately visible.

Manual or Repetitive Tasks: Hard work often involves repetitive or labor-intensive tasks that require focus but not necessarily complex problem-solving.

Pros of Hard Work:

Builds resilience and character.

Can lead to improvement over time as skills and endurance grow.

Provides a sense of accomplishment, especially when challenges are overcome.

Often necessary for foundational tasks or situations where quality cannot be compromised.

Cons of Hard Work:

Can lead to burnout if not managed well.

May not always be the most efficient way to get results.

Sometimes, sheer effort doesn't guarantee smarter or better outcomes.

Smart Work

Definition: Smart work, on the other hand, emphasizes efficiency, strategic thinking, and using the right tools or methods to achieve a goal. It focuses on maximizing results while minimizing wasted effort, often through planning, innovation, and leveraging resources effectively.

Key Characteristics:

Efficiency: Achieving more with less effort by finding better ways to do tasks.

Strategic Planning: Understanding the bigger picture and making decisions that allow you to achieve your goals faster and with less redundancy.

Problem-solving: Leveraging knowledge, tools, and technology to overcome challenges in innovative ways.

Use of Resources: Smart work often involves delegating, using automation, or outsourcing to improve outcomes.

Pros of Smart Work:

Increased efficiency and productivity.

Prevents burnout by minimizing unnecessary effort.

Optimizes resources, such as time, skills, or technology, to achieve the best results.

Often leads to faster results with more innovative or creative solutions.

Cons of Smart Work:

Can require upfront effort to identify the most efficient approach or tools.

May require more knowledge or skill in specific areas (e.g., technology, management).

Can be seen as less diligent or committed if overemphasized without proper execution.

Hard Work vs. Smart Work: A Balanced Approach

While the two approaches may seem at odds, the best path often lies in combining both. Hard work is often the foundation—putting in the time and effort is critical, especially when you're building knowledge or skill. But smart work is what allows you to achieve more, faster, and with less unnecessary struggle.

For example, imagine a person learning to play a musical instrument. Hard work would involve consistent practice—playing scales, memorizing notes, and honing technique. However, smart work would mean practicing with purpose: using the right methods (perhaps focusing on muscle memory for difficult passages) and learning from others (perhaps by watching tutorials or getting feedback from a teacher) to make the practice more effective.

Conclusion:

Hard work is about dedication, persistence, and putting in the effort.

Smart work is about maximizing efficiency, using the right methods, and leveraging resources.

In most situations, a combination of both—where you work hard in the right way, focusing your energy on the most effective tasks—will yield the best results.

[voittoinsights]

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[inkskinned]

i have chronic pain. i am neurodivergent. i understand - deeply - the allure of a "quick fix" like AI. i also just grew up in a different time. we have been warned about this.

15 entire years ago i heard about this. in my forensics class in high school, we watched a documentary about how AI-based "crime solving" software was inevitably biased against people of color.

my teacher stressed that AI is like a book: when someone writes it, some part of the author will remain within the result. the internet existed but not as loudly at that point - we didn't know that AI would be able to teach itself off already-biased Reddit threads. i googled it: yes, this bias is still happening. yes, it's just as bad if not worse.

i can't actually stop you. if you wanna use ChatGPT to slide through your classes, that's on you. it's your money and it's your time. you will spend none of it thinking, you will learn nothing, and, in college, you will piss away hundreds of thousands of dollars. you will stand at the podium having done nothing, accomplished nothing. a cold and bitter pyrrhic victory.

i'm not even sure students actually read the essays or summaries or emails they have ChatGPT pump out. i think it just flows over them and they use the first answer they get. my brother teaches engineering - he recently got fifty-three copies of almost-the-exact-same lab reports. no one had even changed the wording.

and yes: AI itself (as a concept and practice) isn't always evil. there's AI that can help detect cancer, for example. and yet: when i ask my students if they'd be okay with a doctor that learned from AI, many of them balk. it is one thing if they don't read their engineering textbook or if they don't write the critical-thinking essay. it's another when it starts to affect them. they know it's wrong for AI to broad-spectrum deny insurance claims, but they swear their use of AI is different.

there's a strange desire to sort of divorce real-world AI malpractice over "personal use". for example, is it moral to use AI to write your cover letters? cover letters are essentially only templates, and besides: AI is going to be reading your job app, so isn't it kind of fair?

i recently found out that people use AI as a romantic or sexual partner. it seems like teenagers particularly enjoy this connection, and this is one of those "sticky" moments as a teacher. honestly - you can roast me for this - but if it was an actually-safe AI, i think teenagers exploring their sexuality with a fake partner is amazing. it prevents them from making permanent mistakes, it can teach them about their bodies and their desires, and it can help their confidence. but the problem is that it's not safe. there isn't a well-educated, sensitive AI specifically to help teens explore their hormones. it's just internet-fed cycle. who knows what they're learning. who knows what misinformation they're getting.

the most common pushback i get involves therapy. none of us have access to the therapist of our dreams - it's expensive, elusive, and involves an annoying amount of insurance claims. someone once asked me: are you going to be mad when AI saves someone's life?

therapists are not just trained on the book, they're trained on patient management and helping you see things you don't see yourself. part of it will involve discomfort. i don't know that AI is ever going to be able to analyze the words you feed it and answer with a mind towards the "whole person" writing those words. but also - if it keeps/kept you alive, i'm not a purist. i've done terrible things to myself when i was at rock bottom. in an emergency, we kind of forgive the seatbelt for leaving bruises. it's just that chat shouldn't be your only form of self-care and recovery.

and i worry that the influence chat has is expanding. more and more i see people use chat for the smallest, most easily-navigated situations. and i can't like, make you worry about that in your own life. i often think about how easy it was for social media to take over all my time - how i can't have a tiktok because i spend hours on it. i don't want that to happen with chat. i want to enjoy thinking. i want to enjoy writing. i want to be here. i've already really been struggling to put the phone down. this feels like another way to get you to pick the phone up.

the other day, i was frustrated by a book i was reading. it's far in the series and is about a character i resent. i googled if i had to read it, or if it was one of those "in between" books that don't actually affect the plot (you know, one of those ".5" books). someone said something that really stuck with me - theoretically you're reading this series for enjoyment, so while you don't actually have to read it, one would assume you want to read it.

i am watching a generation of people learn they don't have to read the thing in their hand. and it is kind of a strange sort of doom that comes over me: i read because it's genuinely fun. i learn because even though it's hard, it feels good. i try because it makes me happy to try. and i'm watching a generation of people all lay down and say: but i don't want to try.

[plushiefucker-moved]

just saw a really stupid post on tumblr where someone showed the prices of vegetables in china and how, when converted to US dollars, only costs a couple of cents, and the post was like, "ugh why must us americans suffer such high prices when the rest of the world doesn't !!!" and it's like. you are aware that you come from a country with an extremely strong currency, yes ? and that, just bc a loaf of bread costs R20 (or 1.06 USD) here in south africa, that doesn't make it affordable to the average working class south african, just bc it seems cheap to you, yes ? u are aware that many ppl around the world make wayyyyy less than even the minimum wage american, yes ? that, even though you may be struggling financially in ur country, ur dollar still has significant power over the majority of the currencies around the world. yes ?

[almondcroissantsandink]

and then jayce rode that high and was floating on air for an entire week :)

[technically-human]

Jayce Talis but give him the Giopara (lack of) charm

[meinradsocien]

Laziness, hard work and smart work

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