Hello Mr. PRABHU DAYAL CHOUDHARY ,
We have been told that Hard Work leads to progress. But first let's take a look at what progress means. Progress basically means going ahead as compared to where you were previously.
There are many ways to progress. If one has to progress in terms of travelling a physical distance, you can either crawl, you can walk, you can run or you can just take a car, a train or a plane for big distances.
The speed at which progress is directly proportional to the method you use. Now just because you work the hardest doesn't necessarily mean you will make the fastest progress. For example, no matter how long and you run (where your working hard is at its maximum), there is no way you can beat someone on a motorbike or a car or even a bicycle when it comes to longer distances. You can't match their speed and sooner or later your energy will run out.
Thus, the way to the fastest progress is leverage. In other words, you have to utilize a system that is much better than what you currently use that can give you the maximum output for the lowest input.
The goal of an auto manufacturer is not to show off how hard the engine works. The goal is to build engines that give the maximum output whilst using the lowest amount of fuel possible.
The top one percent of the population earns more than the bottom 95 percent of the population combined. There are 24 hours in a day, even if the top one percent of people worked 24 hours a day, there is no way they could outwork the combined work of the 95 percent of the population, even if the 95 percent works only one hour a day!
Let's take a look at the figures. Let us assume there are 1000 people in this world and the top one percent (10 people) makes more than the bottom 95 percent combined (950 people).
Let's assume that those 10 people work 24 hours a day. How many hours of work can they cumulatively get done in one day? It is 240 hours.
The bottom 95 percent, even by working only one hour a day produces a cumulative output of 950 hours of work done in a single day, which is almost 4 times the working hours of the top ten people. Yet the bottom 95 percent is poorer. In reality, of course, they work much longer and still their combined income is less than the top 1 percent.
The truth is many poor people work just as hard. The rich guy might spend 18 hours a day at his office, but the poor guy is spending 18 hours at a factory for much less results. It's just that they are both working hard on different things. One is working hard for the sake of working hard and feeding their family. The other is working hard to build systems that would ultimately free up his time, (or already has access to those systems by virtue of where they were born).
Now. you do have to make sure that both the system and the direction you are focusing on is right. If you are on the right direction but using the wrong system, it is like walking from New Delhi to Beijing instead of boarding a flight. Your hard work won't reward you but might kill you.
If you are using the right system but are in the wrong direction, it's like wanting to fly to Beijing but flying to Antarctica instead. Some may fly west to reach Beijing after travelling around the world, but do you really want that?
So, how do you figure out what is the right direction or the right system? It is through learning.
Abraham Lincoln himself said that if he were given 8 hours to chop a tree, he would spend 6 of them sharpening his axe. 6 hours of sharpening is still hard work but it is working hard on building a system that would then make it very easy to accomplish the desired result. Learning is that sharpening of the axe.
No matter how successful, you already are, it is advisable to devote aleast 20 percent of your time into things that help you improve and get to the next level. It can be networking, it can be reading books related to your work, it can be getting coaching, attending in person or online workshops or consuming anything that gives you more knowledge related to your work.
Then once you have gained the information you need, apply it to your day to day work. If you have used the right information, you will now see it takes less hours to get the same thing done. Devote the extra time you have gotten to either increasing the day to day hustle (more results in the short term) or investing that time into learning even more so that it you can again accomplish more in less time.
Warren Buffett perfected this strategy to such a great degree that now he just spends the majority of his day to reading books. Commit to spending at least time on learning activities, both personally and for the employees, your business is sure to grow to the next level, year after year!
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