How to Work Smarter and Not Harder?

If we want to be more efficient, we need to learn how to work smarter.

I have been always fascinated by people who glorify others who work beyond office hours. Moreover, these people are rewarded over the people who actually deliver good results. This is a sad reality in the professional world that there are still a lot of managers and bosses who still see that working overtime equates productive work of their employees. However, that is not the case anymore in the 21st Century.

People who tend to work beyond the working hours are the unproductive ones. Why? It only shows that they cannot get the job done at a given time. In short, they cannot deliver the results that were asked of them because they were doing TikTok all day were probably distracted by something else during working hours. Perhaps, a short coffee-break chat at work, social media, or just simply being a busybody pretending to keep moving around just to show that they are doing something.

Productivity has been taught in schools for ages work/machine problems in Mathematics. Let’s say there are 8 people who can finish painting a house in 4 days and there are 4 people who can finish the same job 8 days, it shows that the eight people can finish the job earlier. That’s what we wanted, to finish things earlier so we can Make Time for what is truly important.