How Being Lazy Helped Me Skip Unnecessary Hard-Work
A strategy on working-less and getting more.
We are always told to not be lazy. From your parents to that random self-help guru, everybody loves hard-work. As if easy success is a sin. To derive your self-esteem from your effort and not results turns against you. The moment you take a break, guilt will follow.
In a study at the City University of London, they collected work data from 51,895 employees. They concluded that high work time and intensity had no positive effects on results. And a high work-intensity (trying to work more in fewer hours) was harmful to career growth. I want you to rethink what you are reading about hard-work on the internet.
In reality, leverage and smart-effort get you results. Do you think Warren Buffet puts more effort in than a day-labourer? It’s all mental effort, he leverages laws of economics and business. Likewise, there are laws of personal and career growth. They act as levers to your calculated effort, increasing it ten folds.
With this article, I will help you decide what that calculated effort is for your goals. Not selling you on too much or too little effort. There is a difference between effective and ineffective laziness. Ineffective laziness is avoiding all effort. Whereas good laziness is avoiding only…
