Productivity - Working Hard or Hardly Working?

The thought of working hard has been engraved into our heads by people around us. We are always pressured into dull, boring lives revolving around just textbooks and academics. We come home from school and leave immediately for classes, then return in the evening. However, is all this necessary? Is this endless loop of aimless hard work getting us anywhere? Is working less the simple answer to all our problems?


Not quite. Working hard is a very important aspect of achieving success in life. But working less yet working smart can give you an edge over others. Everyone in this world is given 24 hours in one day. Neither can we pause time (yet..) nor can we add hours to a day. Yet, Bill Gates and Elon Musk are the biggest and the richest businessmen in the world and most of us are aimlessly typing away on our laptops with a cup of coffee in one hand. What is their secret you may wonder? Well, I have talked about it already. WORKING LESS! How ironic. Yet, the results speak for themselves. 


We need to understand that our main focus shouldn’t be how many hours we are studying or working. It should be how productive we are during the time we are devoting to studying and working. Instead of spending hours on a single task while being distracted, we should be able to do it in less than half the time with concentration and focus. Work fills the amount of time we have decided to spend on it. Now either you can spend your entire day finishing your work while scrolling through your phone in your hand or spend 40% of that time on it with your phone switched off and then developing new hobbies or spending time with friends and family for the rest of the day.


This is why we should work less but work smart.

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