What is the difference between hard work and smart work?

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Shivali Saxena said:   8 years ago
We have to work hard to work smart, because without working hard, one won't get the chance to work smart.

Working smart without working hard means that one don't want to sharpen his skills. Working hard and not getting success is worthless and working smart without getting the skills developed is worthless.
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Rita said:   8 years ago
Smart work means with whom you can reduce your hard work.
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Nagashree Shetty said:   8 years ago
There is no smart work without hard work. Having said that I stick to the saying "If I have to cut a tree within 10 hours, I would sharpen my knife for the first 9 hours". So, knowing where to put effort and where not to work hard is smart work.
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Preeti said:   8 years ago
If am using creative ideas internet source for making my work easy and fast then I will my work hardly and smartly.
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Dipak said:   8 years ago
Hard work: Without knowing any information about job we can do.

Smart work: Knowing about every information and details about the job they perform.
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Narmada said:   8 years ago
Hard work: Putting pen into the paper and practicing a number of times to gain the knowledge.

Smart work: Using that knowledge developing different ideas to make different.
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Hari said:   8 years ago
Hard work means = you don't use the mind.

Smart work means = you can use the mind.
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Ashika said:   8 years ago
I would say smart work comes from hard work only. As there is one theory also that 'Work hard until you get smart. So, in my point of view you can do smart work only if you have work harder in your life.
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Arc said:   8 years ago
Work with effort - that is hard work.

And work with brain - that is smart work.

A man with brain exactly knows when and when not to work with his heart out.
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Rajesh said:   8 years ago
Hard work - lets take an example of examination, if a person is studying all the modules in the syllabus is called hard work.

Smart work - if the same person understand the pattern of the question paper and find the important question that are repeated over a few years that's smart work.
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