Make an Extraordinary Effort
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Make an Extraordinary Effort
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#2What's the difference between the ordinary and the extraordinary? It's that little bit extra.
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#3Could this be summed up as Work smarter, not harder?
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#4Could this be summed up as Work smarter, not harder ?
Work smarter and harder.
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#5I enjoyed the East vs. West discussion in the article. I grew up in the "East" (India), and even by those standards, the importance of "making a desperate all-out effort as if your own life were at stake" was drilled into my head from a pretty early age. It's one of the things I've chosen to keep, even as I've discarded most things the East gave me, like religion.
When I moved to America, I realized that this notion sounded or would sound pretty absurd to most people around me. Inevitably, I was drawn to entrepreneurship, because that's where I found like minded people.
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#6Could this be summed up as Work smarter, not harder ?
Work smarter and harder.
He's definitely advocating both, but reducing the advice to "work smarter and harder" strips out all of the social and cultural context which gives it motivational force.
The idea of making an "extraordinary effort" compels you to define your efforts relative to what's "ordinary", pitting you against not only your own everyday level of effort, but also against the masses. "Work smarter and harder" doesn't.
Granted, the post could've been more concise.
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#7Pure psycho-babble.
"If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon."
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Work smarter and harder.
He's definitely advocating both, but reducing the advice to "work smarter and harder" strips out all of the social and cultural context which gives it motivational force. The idea of making an "extraordinary effort" compels you to define your efforts relative to what's "ordinary", pitting you against not only your own everyday level of effort, but also against the masses. "Work smarter and harder" doesn't. Granted, t…
I think what "work smarter and harder" misses the most is not the level of effort you need to make, but that in order to get to that level of "extraordinary effort" you need to take risks.
I think trying to reduce this post to one sentence is probably a bad idea anyways. I thought it was worthwhile reading.
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#9Could this be summed up as Work smarter, not harder ?
There's a difference between the notion of "working smarter", and the notion of being willing to leave your comfortable zone and do things outside your usual boundaries, when the ordinary result (or desperate result) isn't good enough.
What does "work smarter" mean operationally? If there were a little switch you could throw in your head, we wouldn't need the Overcoming Bias blog.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
He's definitely advocating both, but reducing the advice to "work smarter and harder" strips out all of the social and cultural context which gives it motivational force. The idea of making an "extraordinary effort" compels you to define your efforts relative to what's "ordinary", pitting you against not only your own everyday level of effort, but also against the masses. "Work smarter and harder" doesn't. Granted, t…
I think what "work smarter and harder" misses the most is not the level of effort you need to make, but that in order to get to that level of "extraordinary effort" you need to take risks. I think trying to reduce this post to one sentence is probably a bad idea anyways. I thought it was worthwhile reading.
I agree. (Incidentally, I wasn't trying to put down your comment specifically, in case it came across that way. I just replied to it since I didn't want to duplicate the point that working harder was also part of the equation.)