Anyone can learn to work effectively, through practice.1. We must begin by deciding where we want to go.What’s our destination ?2. We must come up with a theory for getting there.What’s the path to the destination ?3. We must test this theory in action, by trying to get to the destination.4. Then we must receive feedback and revise their theory.5. Repeat this cycle—theory, action, feedback—until we arrive at our destination.The best theory is the most effective one, the one that can get to the destination the fastest while spending the least energy possible.

Steps to learn effective working.

If someone doesn’t work at all, if they sit on the couch all day, doing something is better than doing nothing.But that’s because doing something is often more effective than doing nothing.The second instance where working hard seems to be good advice is where effective work has already be done.For example, someone stands in a factory pushing a button all day.They work hard and make a lot of money.But working hard only works as a strategy because someone else made pushing the button effective.

Sometimes "Work hard" is a good advice 

Society doesn't reward hardwork but it rewards effectiveness. It rewards those who can get from Point A to Point B—that’s it.For example we don’t care how long Apple takes, or how hard they work, to create a new phone.we only care if it works.If Apple creates their iPhones using a magical genie lamp, without using any effort at all,we’d still pay the full price for it.We’d still reward them.If Apple takes ten years to make a phone expending lots of effort and working really hard—but the phone doesn’t work, we won’t pay a dime for it.In other words, we won’t reward them.

Society rewards effectiveness and not hardwork.

Someone who learns to work effectively learns to be the captain of their ship.They learn how to steer their life in any direction they choose.They know how to row to their destinations and bring others along with them.Someone who learns to work hard learns how to be a good crew member. They only learn how to row the boat, so they’re always dependent on a captain to steer the ship and without a captain to guide them to their destination, they’re lost.

A person who works effectively Vs Person who works hard

Stop working hard and start working effectively.

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