Nothing comes easy, and behind every success are hours of plain hard work. Sounds intimidating, but Richard St. John proposes a simple shift in attitude to turn mediocre into incredible.
Hard work should always be at the core of your blue print. You can develop intelligence through constantly working hard, and putting hours and hours of refining your craft. You can always turn your luck around if you put hard work into it.
its a combination of education, situations and life quality but you can not sit there and argue that the under line fact of being succesful is not through perseverance, determination, long hours, and hard work.
Bart first of, sorry to hear the trouble you had went through. Those people are either horrible people or you're not fit for the job requirement which not intentionally insult your autism nor your personality. You see in life, there are much other factors of why you did not get to continue that job considered EQ (social and emotional skills) and IQ (intelligence quotient). There are also office politics and bad people who put others down because they feed off your weakness. However if you look at real winners with obstacles in their way, their determination pay off aka hard work. Helen Keller and Stephen Hawking are few examples who continue to strive. Why? Simply put. "winners win and losers lose". It's that simple. I don't know you personally but I believe you shouldn't take being fired as a rejection but a way to know what didn't work. Deep down only you know why. Good luck and stay optimistic! (:
Huonous Remember this is one of eight aspects that, according to him, will help you to achieve success. You can't pretend to be able to do that with only one of them!
I wouldn't call working 60-80 hours a week "success". That to me is overkill. Do these people have families? Do they take care of themselves, mentally, physically, and emotionally? Just seems strange to call overdrive and overworking yourself "success".
What about their families, their children? Does their job come first then? Their own pleasures and desires in this life. Lets not forget, a career or business is for us to provide for our family and the rest of the world, not only for ourselves.
I think they're not telling you to neglect yoyr familiess or mental health, I think what they're trying to convey is that working hard is better than wasting time and just relying on your natural talent?
Too many people equate work with money. You got to work to be good at so many places in your life. Work for money, work on your relations, work on your fitness and many more. You achieve success in many aspects of your life when you work hard. Don't always think job when you hear the word "Work."
The "smart people lean back" bit sure hit close to home. I occasionally really struggle with pushing myself after getting all those good grades back in the day. Then I found singing and dancing, which was damned hard for a logical guy, and dang I worked hard on getting those bits right. xD
Many people work very hard, all their life, and have very little to show for it. Certainly hard work is required to achieve many challenging goals. But this video seems to suggest that hard work guarantees reward, and this is contrary to what I have observed. A really smart person, with little effort, will outperform a person of merely average intelligence who has been working really hard to compete. People with innovative ideas often beat those who continue to do something the hard way. If you find something rewarding, then you will naturally work hard at it. But "hard work", for its own sake, is not the purpose of our lives. Hard work is necessary for most people to pay their bills. I like the famous quote from President Lincoln: "My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it." And let's not forget the infamous quote from Nazi Germany: "Work makes you free!", the slogan displayed over various concentration camps where prisoners were worked to death.
Really Nice, a great insight. People say as I have heard that work smart not hard work. This actually made me delusional and as a result I started to move away from work. My experience and this video proves my guts that working really hard makes you top of everything, i mean everything as there is always an invisible Hand that helps along the way.
I think, work, in this video doesn't mean a job. Normaly you just do what your boss,tells you to do. Work, in this definition means, improving your skills. So you try to go over your limitations. And then, when you succed with it, you are more succsessfull. And if you do , what you love to do, even beside working, you will enjoy it, you will be relaxed, and you can show people what you've got so far. If they like it, they will "buy" it. So you succeed. If they don't like your stuff, just keep doing, what you love, and it will be better... But do it for your joy
Work is not better or worse than talent, its talented work that gets you success. There is a direction here, and its about reaching out to the most people and having a great business. You need to work hard at that and with talent to be successful. We don't talk about the failed people who work hard. Instead of saying work I would say determination is a better word and it has to be determination in a field with upwards mobility.
While hard work is a key element in success, it's not all there is to it. A good portion of the success comes identifying what you want to do in life and taking steps to achieve it. This usually means putting yourself in tough, uncomfortable situations, which the majority of people are not willing to go through. Success is more than about just hard work, it's also about making smart but hard choices and committing to these hard choices. But uncomfortable situations force you to work harder, which improves you further, which encourages you to seek new challenges while comfortable situations do the exact opposite, putting you in a state of complacency with no challenge or pressure, dulling you. So it is as much about hard work as it is about smart work.
It is important to work hard, but you also need to work smart. I know many people that work hard and they are not succesful. There are companies that will pay you the same if you work hard or not, so work clever.
+Adam Kantorík people like you will find short cuts and corners no matter what. you are actually very smart but as he stated your statement is a deception of hard work, after all.
Work smart, not hard, and make sure whatever thing/reason you're working for is worthwhile, because the harder you work for something and the longer it takes to attain it, the more the value of it depreciates; if it's not worthwhile, then it's not "success".
I work hard all the time. It feels like all work and no play. The issue isn't so much a matter of working hard, but working hard at the specific things that will return the most appreciable results. You can work really very hard to make yourself a nice gazebo for your back yard, but if you do that while ignoring the other aspects of your life, you may lose out on those other things.
Dude, what's with the fake audience. You don't have to do that. Be real. You don't need the fake audience, laugh tracks, etc... You can make it with content.
Travion Robins One also needs a good teacher, practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect, a student could practice the math equation 5+5, but if they always got an answer of 7, no matter how much they worked hard at it, they're not successful are they? Don't discount outside factors.
If a labourer works hard at being a labourer,he will be successful as a labourer. If a man works hard to do his job,he will continue doing his job and be good at it, therefore being a successful employee . It depends on what kind of success one is looking at. If u want to be the CEO, work hard and smart to 'reach the position of being a CEO' . A bodybuilder or athlete puts in thousands of hours of work to succeed.
I've said for years at my job that the smartest people are the ones who figure out how to get others to work for them, and the brightest of those are the ones that still get paid for the work they haven't done
the truth is that smart people are hard workers the only thing is they don,t admit it.This is because they had experienced it when they work hard they get smarter and being smart makes them work hard.The only thing is that they don't act over smart to show every one how smart they are.the actual truth is the people who are truly smart know that they must work hard to get their smart brain to work so that they polish their skills and get even more better in whatever field they work on.
All that babble from rich people about working hard is just a facade to dupe us in to working hard for them. The truth is, they spent all their time playing office politics and power games, not doing actual work. If you spend your time working hard, you'll just end up getting fired by those who spend their time playing office politics.
True, only if u see one side of the story. The fact Is that Hard work is just one trait that successful people have . There are 7 other traits mentioned by Richard St. John. watch the other videos too. tell me something ,how does one build his physique without working hard? steroids and synthol? lol. also most people work hard . Agreed. but if u don't enjoy what u do,u will be stuck.
+wcsxwcsx you can always work hard for your own business, believe me the work is as awful as the one you got in your job, but then for the same awfulness....the cash is up to you...not up to your boss..and even better you do what you want to do....of course sleeping all day didn't make a lot of money for start up business
The 8 traits the Richard speaks of are going to help you a lot in life but there are other factors that are out of your control no matter how hard you work. I like what he said about smart people not working hard because they rest on their smarts.
Let's be honest, GPA cannot accurately measure intelligence, especially in the context of US public education. Also, stupid people tend to think they're smart because they don't realize how little they know, while smart people tend to think they're stupid because they understand how much there is to learn. And finally, Hard work alone does not lead to success (measured by an accumulation of wealth) but rather innovation. Anybody can pick up a shovel and dig a ditch, but when you can dominate or monopolize a market, and/or there is a higher demand for your product or service (especially when your product or service is highly specialized) you can accumulate more wealth for equal or less effort. You can also increase the net profit from your own effort if you can adapt your methods to be more efficient (work smarter not harder.)
Great points.... and the fact that academic don't matter as much shows that academics, therefore, cannot be work. Rather, work is what you get paid for.
Everybody here is saying that this guy is underestimating smart people, and overestimating work--probably because its a ted-ed and it has a (generally) intelligent audience that was probably offended. But honestly based on just about every study you can find its true. Success is more about guts, confidence, and hours than it is about talent. It takes the average person 10,000 hours to be REALLY incredible at something, even without an ounce of natural talent or skill. If you spend long enough improving and believing honestly that you will get there YOU WILL. You can be a terrible singer and end up in a musical if you devote all your time to lessons and listening. But it's tough, its hard work, and thats what I think he's saying.
Lucy Walker that's not what he's saying, i wish it was what he was saying tho, your explanation makes much more sense...when he's saying "work wins over smarts" this is opposite what you're saying with devoting all your time to lessons and improving. Even just in realizing you needed to devote all your time you would be using smarts over work. It would be like a math student repeatedly adding 5+5 but always getting 7 not matter how many hours they spent on it or how fast then did it, if you go with his mindset that work wins over smarts...
+Meloni Lewis I'm sorry but from what I've understood, he's trying to say that hard and smart work beats talented people who are too lazy. also check out his other videos.
+rishabh kaul i don't want to check out his other videos, and it seems to me that the view you're/and the op are saying that smart work wins over smarts or talent and laziness, is what we all wish he was talking about, but this isn't what it sounded like to me anyway...js. idk maybe it can be interpreted how people want to interpret it? i guess i feel it would be better if yours was the message he was trying to convey but with the thumbnail of "work wins over smarts" i just can't interpret it in the better way that you two are...
Work Hard is no doubt a primary key to achieve anything. But this video totally focus on just one aspect of success. Success is a difficult and variable term. Not everybody takes success in form. Everybody has there own definition of success.
Successful don't work hard they work smart.they don't work hard but simply enjoy what they are doing .most of them follow their passion.thay is the key to working hard .
First you have to define "success". Oprah may be rich, famous, and influential, but I, personally, for me, don't consider never seeing sunlight successful. If I were Oprah I'd wake up one day and say, "What happened? Where did my life go?" And by then it would be too late to buy a life.
+Silkendrum although you have a point, consider also that the same thing applies the other way around. Untapped talent or/and tardiness, is what we regret also in the future. Success in the video is defined as doing something and being considered the best at it while loving what you do or/and working hard to be the best at what you do - and as basis for quantitative rationalization = net worth. There are alot of people whom share your views, but hopefully it is not to justify tardiness.
+jaja1818 Tardiness? I didn't mention tardiness. How did that get in there? I'm just saying that "success" as defined in this video might bring you a lot of acclaim and money, but at a cost I'm not willing to pay. I would define "success", a successful life, differently.
+Silkendrum Hard workers don't work hard because they have to, they want to, they enjoy it, they enjoy the grind, and the rewards. Some people enjoy basic lifes styles, where they get a 9-5 job and get paid an average salary which is fair enough, but the thing about easy life goals is you end up wanting more from your life, that's when you find the time to start bitching and moaning about things in your life. If being outside and family life is important to you then you can find your dream job catering around those areas and still work your butt off and put the time in, because you enjoy it. It's not about money but the passion and productivity.
+Blazed I retired quite comfortably at 51. I lived well when I was younger, but not extravagantly, studied the markets, and invested every spare penny wisely - wisely enough that the recent market dips didn't affect me. I saved for things I wanted, never took out loans, not even for cars. I bought to please myself, not to impress neighbors, always exactly what I wanted, never more or larger than I needed. I now have no debts, a load of assets (enough that they continue to grow on their own even as I draw from them), and I can do anything and go anywhere I want. I consider my life successful and productive. I'm happy.
It's important to note that this whole lecture is just focusing on 1 of his 8 traits. So (hard) work is necessary but it's not the only thing needed to be success.
They should give people jobs before we can work hard. It's kinda hypocrite thing to say, considering many people on this planet would kill for a chance, to prove and to work. It's easy to talk about hard work when you we've been born in a good area, good and wealthy country.
Well that's mean you need to work hard to get a job at the first place. If you don't work hard enough and just blaming other people then you are not learning anything in this video
spd3ictpro You need to work hard in order to get a job ? What kind of fucking reversal logic is that ? You need to eat to be hungry ? Does that makes any sense ?
At my job they always tell me work smarter not harder but I'm the fastest and most efficient in every aspect of the job. I'm so glad to hear that I'mright from an outside source
threex1 So are you saying that if a math student kept practicing and working hard to solve what 5+5 equaled, but no matter how fast or how efficiently he tried, if he always came up with the answer of 7, this would be success?
So are you trying to say that work wins over smarts or not? because that's what this video is suggesting and I thought that when you said "I'm so glad to hear that I'mright from an outside source" that you were agreeing with the video and not with what you're job was always telling you? If by "more efficient and faster" you mean just work(like just doing physical or mental activity to get something done which is the impression of "work" i get from the video seeing how it's suggesting work is more important than using your brain) instead of improving your work along the way which you would HAVE to use your smarts, then i think you've missed the point and aren't crediting your smarts in there... I would guess that when you say "more efficient" and even faster you have to have used your brain to figure out/learn/practice how to be more efficient and how to get faster right? so therefore IF you did NOT use your smarts then you would only be working harder not more efficient or faster. So how can work "win" over smarts if you need to be smart to be able to work better? it just doesn't make sense if you think about it. I'm not sure why you aren't crediting your intelligence for your being better/faster at the work you do.
Everyone who's saying "money is just a medium by which you'd measure worldly success" stop lying to yourselves, you want money, I want money, we work for money. No matter how you view it, it's always good to have cash in your pocket and once you've secured that you can move on to fulfill your own definition of success. You need money to survive it's that simple.
And not just working, but a focused & planned working too. It'll go to waste (or at least not realized to the full potential) when you switch from Plan A to Plan B to Plan C... all without heed of the principle of "building up".
The best way to do work that you dont want to do is: -plan it before you do it, set the time when you are going to start. -dont feel when you do your work -thin negatively when you work, work so you dont get fired, dont work so you get promoted.
Don't you get it people? Hard work isn't a guarantee for success, but it's, in most cases, a requirement for it.
Watch elon musk
great, I'm not smart and lazy as hell.... best combination
+Prin Nana Sounds like you don't like it, wich is good. Then it's just a matter of time before you change to the way you want to be
Slap Happy well, the first step is to recognize the problem, right. the execution is different thing though xP
Prin Nana haha, true that. You'll get the hang of it ;)
+This Guy you're abosultely right ...thats whau i'm thinking.
How can she work hard if she is lazy as hell. hmmmm. 😕
Just DO IT! If you're tired of starting over, STOP GIVING UP! JUST *DO IT!!*
Don't let your dreams be dreams
I rubbed myself on a watermelon for pleasure
+TheLenZovS 😂😂😂 wtf
xD
but the TH-cam videos....
"My old man worked hard and all they gave him was more work."
-Larry Wilson
Hard work should always be at the core of your blue print.
You can develop intelligence through constantly working hard, and putting hours and hours of refining your craft.
You can always turn your luck around if you put hard work into it.
The most succesful people are hard workers (according to them), but are most hard workers succesful?
its a combination of education, situations and life quality but you can not sit there and argue that the under line fact of being succesful is not through perseverance, determination, long hours, and hard work.
Is not any combination. Is a simple equation: Hardwork+Passion=Extraordinary Result.
Passion arrive from obsession which result of perverance and determination at its core.
Bart first of, sorry to hear the trouble you had went through. Those people are either horrible people or you're not fit for the job requirement which not intentionally insult your autism nor your personality. You see in life, there are much other factors of why you did not get to continue that job considered EQ (social and emotional skills) and IQ (intelligence quotient). There are also office politics and bad people who put others down because they feed off your weakness. However if you look at real winners with obstacles in their way, their determination pay off aka hard work. Helen Keller and Stephen Hawking are few examples who continue to strive. Why? Simply put. "winners win and losers lose". It's that simple. I don't know you personally but I believe you shouldn't take being fired as a rejection but a way to know what didn't work. Deep down only you know why. Good luck and stay optimistic! (:
Huonous Remember this is one of eight aspects that, according to him, will help you to achieve success. You can't pretend to be able to do that with only one of them!
I wouldn't call working 60-80 hours a week "success". That to me is overkill. Do these people have families? Do they take care of themselves, mentally, physically, and emotionally? Just seems strange to call overdrive and overworking yourself "success".
What about their families, their children? Does their job come first then? Their own pleasures and desires in this life. Lets not forget, a career or business is for us to provide for our family and the rest of the world, not only for ourselves.
yeah, It was a good lesson. I just don't agree with working a ton when having a family. Unless it's sole to provide for them.
That's called drive... they want to be at the top.. family comes later for them
I think they're not telling you to neglect yoyr familiess or mental health, I think what they're trying to convey is that working hard is better than wasting time and just relying on your natural talent?
Too many people equate work with money. You got to work to be good at so many places in your life. Work for money, work on your relations, work on your fitness and many more. You achieve success in many aspects of your life when you work hard. Don't always think job when you hear the word "Work."
It's all about "Hurd Wurk".
*hard work
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your picture makes that comment gold.
or when he pronounced nasa as nahsaw
Conor Mcregor : it's all about fookin hard woork
The "smart people lean back" bit sure hit close to home. I occasionally really struggle with pushing myself after getting all those good grades back in the day. Then I found singing and dancing, which was damned hard for a logical guy, and dang I worked hard on getting those bits right. xD
Work Until Your Bank Account Looks like a Phone Number
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Many people work very hard, all their life, and have very little to show for it. Certainly hard work is required to achieve many challenging goals. But this video seems to suggest that hard work guarantees reward, and this is contrary to what I have observed. A really smart person, with little effort, will outperform a person of merely average intelligence who has been working really hard to compete. People with innovative ideas often beat those who continue to do something the hard way.
If you find something rewarding, then you will naturally work hard at it. But "hard work", for its own sake, is not the purpose of our lives. Hard work is necessary for most people to pay their bills. I like the famous quote from President Lincoln: "My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it." And let's not forget the infamous quote from Nazi Germany: "Work makes you free!", the slogan displayed over various concentration camps where prisoners were worked to death.
trukkstop1 exactly!!
Really Nice, a great insight. People say as I have heard that work smart not hard work. This actually made me delusional and as a result I started to move away from work. My experience and this video proves my guts that working really hard makes you top of everything, i mean everything as there is always an invisible Hand that helps along the way.
it's so useful. after watching this video I have motivation to turn my dream come true. Thank you so much.
and now? what you can do with this motivation
I think, work, in this video doesn't mean a job. Normaly you just do what your boss,tells you to do. Work, in this definition means, improving your skills. So you try to go over your limitations. And then, when you succed with it, you are more succsessfull. And if you do , what you love to do, even beside working, you will enjoy it, you will be relaxed, and you can show people what you've got so far. If they like it, they will "buy" it. So you succeed. If they don't like your stuff, just keep doing, what you love, and it will be better... But do it for your joy
Great, thank you for sharing this post.Really looking forward to find out more.
Great Presentation. Thanks Richard for your exhorting words.
Thank you, I needed this.
Work is not better or worse than talent, its talented work that gets you success. There is a direction here, and its about reaching out to the most people and having a great business. You need to work hard at that and with talent to be successful. We don't talk about the failed people who work hard. Instead of saying work I would say determination is a better word and it has to be determination in a field with upwards mobility.
natural skill is not real. everything is learned and the variables that should be measured is speed of learning and comprehension
While hard work is a key element in success, it's not all there is to it. A good portion of the success comes identifying what you want to do in life and taking steps to achieve it. This usually means putting yourself in tough, uncomfortable situations, which the majority of people are not willing to go through. Success is more than about just hard work, it's also about making smart but hard choices and committing to these hard choices. But uncomfortable situations force you to work harder, which improves you further, which encourages you to seek new challenges while comfortable situations do the exact opposite, putting you in a state of complacency with no challenge or pressure, dulling you. So it is as much about hard work as it is about smart work.
It is important to work hard, but you also need to work smart. I know many people that work hard and they are not succesful. There are companies that will pay you the same if you work hard or not, so work clever.
+Adam Kantorík people like you will find short cuts and corners no matter what. you are actually very smart but as he stated your statement is a deception of hard work, after all.
+Adam Kantorík this is one of the 8 traits which contribute to a success. So working hard solely cannot lead us to the top of anything, in my opinion.
thank you I came here with a great depression. But, you give me hope again thank you so much.
Work smart, not hard, and make sure whatever thing/reason you're working for is worthwhile, because the harder you work for something and the longer it takes to attain it, the more the value of it depreciates; if it's not worthwhile, then it's not "success".
Man this guy is providing the secret sauce all over TH-cam! Thanks :)
Amazing talk right there.I am so inspired.Thank you...
some great stuff here. Thanks Richard!
I work hard all the time. It feels like all work and no play. The issue isn't so much a matter of working hard, but working hard at the specific things that will return the most appreciable results. You can work really very hard to make yourself a nice gazebo for your back yard, but if you do that while ignoring the other aspects of your life, you may lose out on those other things.
Just keep working!
Im curious though, do you think you would be able to move if you were a roofer for 80 hours a week? Or any other manual laborer?
Dude, what's with the fake audience. You don't have to do that. Be real. You don't need the fake audience, laugh tracks, etc... You can make it with content.
How is it fake ? Look at the end of the video
Ayoub Gasmi Totally fake. Fake laughs. Fake audience.
Great talk.. I love this video.
Work smart.
And hard
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wow this is an eyeopener! thank u
That's awesome. Kinda brung a tear to my eye.
They're working hard "doing what they love" hence "Workafrolics" pick what you love work hard at it and stick to it. Don't give up. I needed that!
Travion Robins One also needs a good teacher, practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect, a student could practice the math equation 5+5, but if they always got an answer of 7, no matter how much they worked hard at it, they're not successful are they? Don't discount outside factors.
Agreed, I've seen hardworking people not succeed. Often
Bart Staelens
Hard work doesn't always bring succes , but no hard doesn't bring nothing at all.
Best example is myself.
What about the people who work so hard all the time but never become successful
If a labourer works hard at being a labourer,he will be successful as a labourer. If a man works hard to do his job,he will continue doing his job and be good at it, therefore being a successful employee . It depends on what kind of success one is looking at. If u want to be the CEO, work hard and smart to 'reach the position of being a CEO' . A bodybuilder or athlete puts in thousands of hours of work to succeed.
@Different 1 I think in the end all our hardwork gets rewarded it may not be instant but it come like the reward comes
To put it another way: if you have fun working, you have talent in it
this is the best motivational lecture for me so far..
I've said for years at my job that the smartest people are the ones who figure out how to get others to work for them, and the brightest of those are the ones that still get paid for the work they haven't done
the truth is that smart people are hard workers the only thing is they don,t admit it.This is because they had experienced it when they work hard they get smarter and being smart makes them work hard.The only thing is that they don't act over smart to show every one how smart they are.the actual truth is the people who are truly smart know that they must work hard to get their smart brain to work so that they polish their skills and get even more better in whatever field they work on.
The only relevant comment of the video
Thank you.
You made me recognize a big mistake,thank you!
All that babble from rich people about working hard is just a facade to dupe us in to working hard for them. The truth is, they spent all their time playing office politics and power games, not doing actual work. If you spend your time working hard, you'll just end up getting fired by those who spend their time playing office politics.
True, only if u see one side of the story. The fact Is that Hard work is just one trait that successful people have . There are 7 other traits mentioned by Richard St. John. watch the other videos too. tell me something ,how does one build his physique without working hard? steroids and synthol? lol. also most people work hard . Agreed. but if u don't enjoy what u do,u will be stuck.
+wcsxwcsx you can always work hard for your own business, believe me the work is as awful as the one you got in your job, but then for the same awfulness....the cash is up to you...not up to your boss..and even better you do what you want to do....of course sleeping all day didn't make a lot of money for start up business
Thank you .. so motivating
The 8 traits the Richard speaks of are going to help you a lot in life but there are other factors that are out of your control no matter how hard you work. I like what he said about smart people not working hard because they rest on their smarts.
I can relate something with this video and am pretty much sure now i am going to work hard but not to score higher grades but to learn🔝🕉
best video it gives idea that everyone has potential to succeed
This is so inspirational!
Now this is the best motivation speech
I agree with this. This is so relatable
Let's be honest, GPA cannot accurately measure intelligence, especially in the context of US public education.
Also, stupid people tend to think they're smart because they don't realize how little they know, while smart people tend to think they're stupid because they understand how much there is to learn.
And finally, Hard work alone does not lead to success (measured by an accumulation of wealth) but rather innovation. Anybody can pick up a shovel and dig a ditch, but when you can dominate or monopolize a market, and/or there is a higher demand for your product or service (especially when your product or service is highly specialized) you can accumulate more wealth for equal or less effort. You can also increase the net profit from your own effort if you can adapt your methods to be more efficient (work smarter not harder.)
Great points.... and the fact that academic don't matter as much shows that academics, therefore, cannot be work. Rather, work is what you get paid for.
Wow this is a mind-opener..
A miracle is another name for hardwork💙
Any example ?
Everybody here is saying that this guy is underestimating smart people, and overestimating work--probably because its a ted-ed and it has a (generally) intelligent audience that was probably offended. But honestly based on just about every study you can find its true. Success is more about guts, confidence, and hours than it is about talent. It takes the average person 10,000 hours to be REALLY incredible at something, even without an ounce of natural talent or skill. If you spend long enough improving and believing honestly that you will get there YOU WILL. You can be a terrible singer and end up in a musical if you devote all your time to lessons and listening. But it's tough, its hard work, and thats what I think he's saying.
I appreciate your insight. That was quite enlightening.
Lucy Walker that's not what he's saying, i wish it was what he was saying tho, your explanation makes much more sense...when he's saying "work wins over smarts" this is opposite what you're saying with devoting all your time to lessons and improving. Even just in realizing you needed to devote all your time you would be using smarts over work. It would be like a math student repeatedly adding 5+5 but always getting 7 not matter how many hours they spent on it or how fast then did it, if you go with his mindset that work wins over smarts...
+Meloni Lewis I'm sorry but from what I've understood, he's trying to say that hard and smart work beats talented people who are too lazy. also check out his other videos.
+rishabh kaul i don't want to check out his other videos, and it seems to me that the view you're/and the op are saying that smart work wins over smarts or talent and laziness, is what we all wish he was talking about, but this isn't what it sounded like to me anyway...js. idk maybe it can be interpreted how people want to interpret it? i guess i feel it would be better if yours was the message he was trying to convey but with the thumbnail of "work wins over smarts" i just can't interpret it in the better way that you two are...
Well yeah I understand. Many people had diverse reactions after watching this video.
Work Hard is no doubt a primary key to achieve anything. But this video totally focus on just one aspect of success. Success is a difficult and variable term. Not everybody takes success in form. Everybody has there own definition of success.
The word "hard" sounds weird to me now...
Love this!
Got a vacation ad, before this. Oh the irony.
Hard work + passion (passion is part of the equation, important!)
You can tell this vid is 10 years from the advice alone
this is sooooo encouraging!! gonna work now!
thanks alot you changed my life
I love this guy...
Great insights shared in this video.
Successful don't work hard they work smart.they don't work hard but simply enjoy what they are doing .most of them follow their passion.thay is the key to working hard .
Work wins over smarts.
Talent is a gift you get from consistent practice.
First you have to define "success". Oprah may be rich, famous, and influential, but I, personally, for me, don't consider never seeing sunlight successful. If I were Oprah I'd wake up one day and say, "What happened? Where did my life go?" And by then it would be too late to buy a life.
+Silkendrum although you have a point, consider also that the same thing applies the other way around. Untapped talent or/and tardiness, is what we regret also in the future. Success in the video is defined as doing something and being considered the best at it while loving what you do or/and working hard to be the best at what you do - and as basis for quantitative rationalization = net worth. There are alot of people whom share your views, but hopefully it is not to justify tardiness.
+jaja1818
Tardiness? I didn't mention tardiness. How did that get in there? I'm just saying that "success" as defined in this video might bring you a lot of acclaim and money, but at a cost I'm not willing to pay. I would define "success", a successful life, differently.
+Silkendrum Word
+Silkendrum Hard workers don't work hard because they have to, they want to, they enjoy it, they enjoy the grind, and the rewards. Some people enjoy basic lifes styles, where they get a 9-5 job and get paid an average salary which is fair enough, but the thing about easy life goals is you end up wanting more from your life, that's when you find the time to start bitching and moaning about things in your life. If being outside and family life is important to you then you can find your dream job catering around those areas and still work your butt off and put the time in, because you enjoy it. It's not about money but the passion and productivity.
+Blazed
I retired quite comfortably at 51. I lived well when I was younger, but not extravagantly, studied the markets, and invested every spare penny wisely - wisely enough that the recent market dips didn't affect me. I saved for things I wanted, never took out loans, not even for cars. I bought to please myself, not to impress neighbors, always exactly what I wanted, never more or larger than I needed. I now have no debts, a load of assets (enough that they continue to grow on their own even as I draw from them), and I can do anything and go anywhere I want. I consider my life successful and productive. I'm happy.
There are no tricks or shortcuts, hard work is the key to success.
He interviewed Robin Williams AND Richard Branson? Great man, this interviewer!
simply awesome
Philosophical question: What is "success" ?
Maybe achieve your goals. Regardless of how big is that.
Hard work doesn't pay off in Walmart. Stupidity, laziness and arrogance are the main ingredients there.
I was once a walmart employee, now I am a executive for Walmart.
assistant manager doesn't count
I am the visionary team leader at a local area with few Walmart. Technically, is a executive job but just not as prestige as chief titles.
In other words, hard work DID pay off.
Yes, hard work do pay off. Although you need to know what you are working toward.
Amazing video.
this man is selling illusion !!
Yep man..... Thanks for the wake up call.....
This is in fact my wake up call!
Did it work?
It's important to note that this whole lecture is just focusing on 1 of his 8 traits. So (hard) work is necessary but it's not the only thing needed to be success.
The main problem is when the Talented peopple start work hard,, damn I can't never beat them,,
They should give people jobs before we can work hard. It's kinda hypocrite thing to say, considering many people on this planet would kill for a chance, to prove and to work. It's easy to talk about hard work when you we've been born in a good area, good and wealthy country.
Well that's mean you need to work hard to get a job at the first place. If you don't work hard enough and just blaming other people then you are not learning anything in this video
spd3ictpro You need to work hard in order to get a job ? What kind of fucking reversal logic is that ? You need to eat to be hungry ? Does that makes any sense ?
Well you could always think beyond doing a 'job' . You could start your own business from nothing and create something.
+Aleksandar Grbic maybe work hard to acquire skills to stand out among other candidates while applying for a job.
Seeing Robin Williams broke my heart.
Amazing video👍🏻
my wake up call for sure.
very nice speech.
thank you
Loved it 😊
Thnx for the wakeup call
keep working, work hard in everything
The A students worked for it too!
wow, great precentation
At my job they always tell me work smarter not harder but I'm the fastest and most efficient in every aspect of the job. I'm so glad to hear that I'mright from an outside source
threex1 So are you saying that if a math student kept practicing and working hard to solve what 5+5 equaled, but no matter how fast or how efficiently he tried, if he always came up with the answer of 7, this would be success?
+meloni Lewis not by any means. Did u get to the part in my comment where I said my method was more efficient and faster.
So are you trying to say that work wins over smarts or not? because that's what this video is suggesting and I thought that when you said "I'm so glad to hear that I'mright from an outside source" that you were agreeing with the video and not with what you're job was always telling you?
If by "more efficient and faster" you mean just work(like just doing physical or mental activity to get something done which is the impression of "work" i get from the video seeing how it's suggesting work is more important than using your brain) instead of improving your work along the way which you would HAVE to use your smarts, then i think you've missed the point and aren't crediting your smarts in there...
I would guess that when you say "more efficient" and even faster you have to have used your brain to figure out/learn/practice how to be more efficient and how to get faster right? so therefore IF you did NOT use your smarts then you would only be working harder not more efficient or faster. So how can work "win" over smarts if you need to be smart to be able to work better? it just doesn't make sense if you think about it. I'm not sure why you aren't crediting your intelligence for your being better/faster at the work you do.
Everyone who's saying "money is just a medium by which you'd measure worldly success" stop lying to yourselves, you want money, I want money, we work for money. No matter how you view it, it's always good to have cash in your pocket and once you've secured that you can move on to fulfill your own definition of success. You need money to survive it's that simple.
To achieve success you need to find happiness in smallest of things ...
And not just working, but a focused & planned working too.
It'll go to waste (or at least not realized to the full potential) when you switch from Plan A to Plan B to Plan C... all without heed of the principle of "building up".
Boom. I'm sure kids in central Africa work harder than kids anywhere else.
Actually, the A students are the hard workers and C students are the smart ones in college.
it's simple but great!
hard work and inherit an empire from your father; Easy
Sean Douglas trump?
amazing !
Hard work, smart work, hard work, smark work.... My head is spinning.
The best way to do work that you dont want to do is:
-plan it before you do it, set the time when you are going to start.
-dont feel when you do your work
-thin negatively when you work, work so you dont get fired, dont work so you get promoted.