What is the difference between hard work and smart work?

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Kadambini kumari said:   8 years ago
SMART WORK

In my opinion, smart work is better because now a day no one can try to left behind. All the people should be aggressive and fast so these days not for doing the work for a longer period of time. It's a time to do work smartly. Ex-if a student study for 7 hours and getting 60% and as same another student study for 3 hours and getting 75% now this is the smart work study for only 3 hours with the full concentration and finish the work in short duration of time.

Now, these days all wants to do work smartly and smart work can be done with the mental appearance of the people in a short duration of time. smart work can save both the time and the energy both .through the smart work your goal can reach fast Working smartly generally implies thinking beforehand to achieve the same results by applying minimum efforts (more mental effort).

Smart work allows you to be more organized.
Smart work can get you instant fame and help to earn you a name.
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Jitendra sahu said:   2 years ago
Hard Work:
Hard work is about putting in a lot of effort and time to complete a task or achieve a goal. It often involves a strong work ethic, dedication, and persistence. Hard work can be physically demanding and may require a significant amount of time and energy.

Smart Work:
Smart work, on the other hand, is about finding efficient and effective ways to accomplish tasks. It involves strategic thinking, planning, and using resources wisely to achieve the best results with the least amount of effort. Smart work focuses on working smarter, not necessarily harder.

In summary, hard work emphasizes putting in a lot of effort and time, while smart work involves finding more efficient and effective ways to achieve your goals. It's about working efficiently and using your resources wisely to save time and energy.
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TrueCV said:   2 years ago
Hard work refers to putting in a lot of time and effort into a task or goal. It is characterized by persistence and determination, and it often involves working long hours and putting in physical effort.

Smart work, on the other hand, involves working efficiently and effectively. It's about finding the best and most efficient ways to complete a task and achieving the desired result with minimal effort. Smart work involves critical thinking, strategic planning, and utilizing available resources to the fullest.

Both hard work and smart work are important and complement each other. Hard work helps to lay the foundation for success, while smart work helps to optimize and streamline the process. I believe that a combination of both hard work and smart work is the key to achieving great results.
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Prashanth Kumar said:   2 years ago
Hard work refers to putting in a lot of effort, time, and energy into a task or goal. It is characterized by persistence, determination, and a willingness to put in the necessary time and effort to achieve success.

Smart work, on the other hand, involves working efficiently and effectively by utilizing skills, knowledge, and resources to produce the best results in the least amount of time. It involves finding the most efficient and effective methods to complete a task and making use of technology and other resources to streamline the process.

In essence, hard work is about putting in the effort, while smart work is about putting in the effort in the smartest way possible. Both are important for success, and combining the two can lead to maximum results.
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Mahesh Rajgude said:   5 months ago
The main difference between hard work and smart work is efficiency and strategy:

Hard Work:
Focuses on effort and time spent.
Involves working long hours and putting in maximum physical or mental energy.
It may not always be efficient if not planned well.

Smart Work:
Focuses on working efficiently by using the right strategies and tools.
Involves planning, prioritization, and automation to achieve better results with less effort.
Saves time while maintaining or improving quality.

Example:

Hard Work: A person manually counts 10,000 papers for a report.
Smart Work: A person uses a machine or software to count in seconds.
The best approach is a combination of both—hard work with smart strategies! Would you like tips on applying this in real life?
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Arpan Ghosh said:   7 years ago
In my opnion. Hard work means to do a work with more effort with out using your ideas.

But smart work means to use you brain to do this work in a limited time with accuracy.

Suppose there was two boy. Given them a task to oppen the locked door.

One of them starting to push the door with his full effort, with out looking any whare.

And the other one looking all at first and put the key from the table and unlock the door.

They both oppen the door. But the 1st boy use his most effort but he culd not oppen the door in a right way, and the other one using his brain, and clamness and oppen the door currently.

This is the difference between the smart work and the hard work.
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Mahesh said:   7 years ago
Whats coming to my mind is some students studies too much, some of them get good marks and some not. Some students get decent marks even though they study less. If one works hard, studies a lot, or puts too much energy on doing any work, I call it as hard work. If one achieves the same by putting less energy, I call it smart work. If even after hard work, one won't be able to achieve the things, then he should change his method of doing it, and that's smartness.

For example, when we were small, some friends used to by heart the things, but could not write well in exams, It's hard work. Understanding the concepts and writing in the exam is smart work.
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Prianshu said:   7 years ago
Hello everyone.

As we know that all the things we do in our life have a particular impact in our lives. Either it is hard work or smart work.

Hard work generally deals with your efforts which you put in any particular field physically and mentally as well. Hard work just not means only the physical strength but the mental efforts you put in it.

On the other side, Smart work deals with the efficient and effective measures used to do work with mental ability. It requries lot of hardwork and patience to gather the experiences from past and to utilise them in present as well as future. So in my opinion both are necessary to attain a particular goal.
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Akhil said:   7 years ago
Hard work is a part of smart work. Hard work gives you experience and smart work came from experience. Hard work uses physical strength, consume much time and produces less result but smart work uses physical as well as mental strength and save our time and produce an efficient result. Even the labour do hard work. Spending a lot of hours and getting less productivity is hard work, spending less time and high productivity is smart work.

Eg. If you are studying the whole day and completing 3 chapters and another one who is just studying 4 hours and completed 3 chapter will be a smart worker.
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Vinay said:   7 years ago
According to me,

As our elders always remind us that without hard work nothing will be achieved I totally agree with that but now a days work should be completed time to time for that new ideas, logics and innovation involves in the work so that the work can be completed in a given period of time for ex: if a project is given in a school to complete within 3 days then hard worker will starts the work since the day the work is announced but the smart worker gathers put his present ideas and past ideas and make a commparision in the work and makes it innovative and logical.
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