I liked both this and your prior post that led to this one. So I am hoping the following doesn’t come across as critical or dismissive—I think of it as complementary.
I struggle a bit with the “more hard working” term. Just what does that mean to people. In the simplest level it just means more effort/focused time. But that doesn’t include results and at the end of the day I’m more of a results produced than just effort extended type. (I also assume that those that provided input to your survey have some direct link in mind about a positive effort and output relationship when suggesting working harder.)
A while back I was musing about s similar type of question and thought about the 80-20 rule. If I can get 80% of the results/gains from 20% of the effort am I going to be better off doing five things half-asses as it were or fully committing to one thing. I didn’t pursue that question far enough to say how that answer plays out or what the key criteria might be. But, for the comment here will assume doing 5 things with 20% effort over the one thing with 100% effort is the more productive option.
I think in that situation, I would always see myself as not working very hard on anything—clearly I could work harder in any of the five areas. At the same time it would also be true that I am putting in 100% total effort. How might I assess my own level of work? If I only think about any one of the 5 “jobs” I am doing clearly I’m a huge slacker. But it’s not clear that increasing my work in any one area would be good. And, as I am, across the 5 “jobs”, putting in 100% effort increasing to more than 100% would be possible short-term but not sustainable and might break the 80-20 rule relationship to where I’m getting something like 70-22.
I liked both this and your prior post that led to this one. So I am hoping the following doesn’t come across as critical or dismissive—I think of it as complementary.
I struggle a bit with the “more hard working” term. Just what does that mean to people. In the simplest level it just means more effort/focused time. But that doesn’t include results and at the end of the day I’m more of a results produced than just effort extended type. (I also assume that those that provided input to your survey have some direct link in mind about a positive effort and output relationship when suggesting working harder.)
A while back I was musing about s similar type of question and thought about the 80-20 rule. If I can get 80% of the results/gains from 20% of the effort am I going to be better off doing five things half-asses as it were or fully committing to one thing. I didn’t pursue that question far enough to say how that answer plays out or what the key criteria might be. But, for the comment here will assume doing 5 things with 20% effort over the one thing with 100% effort is the more productive option.
I think in that situation, I would always see myself as not working very hard on anything—clearly I could work harder in any of the five areas. At the same time it would also be true that I am putting in 100% total effort. How might I assess my own level of work? If I only think about any one of the 5 “jobs” I am doing clearly I’m a huge slacker. But it’s not clear that increasing my work in any one area would be good. And, as I am, across the 5 “jobs”, putting in 100% effort increasing to more than 100% would be possible short-term but not sustainable and might break the 80-20 rule relationship to where I’m getting something like 70-22.