Stop praising your hard work

Translation of a recent popular post from Hacker News .



You leave your office no earlier than midnight.



Write posts on Twitter about work and check-in at the office on Saturdays and Sundays - desperately trying to show that despite the weekend, you continue to work hard (unlike the others).

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# INKED #HUSTLE # WORK



Stop, please.



No need to extol hard and long labor hours. The fact that you apply all your efforts to work does not mean at all that you do it with the mind or do it more than others. It is possible that you just can not understand how to concentrate on the most important thing.



The difference between persistent and effective work is comprehended only with experience - you will not understand it until you "burn out" several times. I am now slightly distorted when I see a young start-up or programmer who writes tweets and blog posts about how much they managed to do today thanks to the hellish rush - or something in the spirit of “here, it's already midnight in the yard I just leave the office. ” At this time I usually already lie in bed and look through the news before bedtime. So much work you can afford only in the complete absence of a balance between work and personal life, and I myself know that such a life will never bring satisfaction. So let's get along without this bluster. You are welcome…



And yes, I'm not trying to forbid you to work hard and many hours, or claim that it is bad - I say that you should stop praising it so.



Well, enough of my personal opinion, let's better turn to Yahoo Answer - there the answers are always either wildly funny, or beaten right in the forehead.



Question : Why do people so praise their "hard work"?

Yahoo Answer : Work! = Injecting. Its meaning is not to regularly work many hours a day. It is in order to work effectively - your work must be productive and at the same time be carried out with the least amount of effort.



A friend of mine always praises that he sits behind the wheel of a truck as much as 60 hours a week, hauling Coca-Cola. So, I can accept my congratulations - it takes me 35 hours a week to work, and at the same time I get twice as much.



Maybe it's time to stop pretending that spending 50 or more hours a week in the office or in the workplace is a good idea, and you have to admit that real geniuses are looking for ways to simplify the process and do the same in just 25?