Working hard is not good enough???

School days!!!!I remember how we were told by parents, teachers , elder siblings to work hard….to slog for 14 hours during the 10^th exams…and we thought that was the end of the world!!...then we step to college and then the real world…and face all kinds of people from different backgrounds, different places  , different classes of society and then surprise!!!  It’s  all so different…..suddenly we see that creative  brains out there with brilliant ideas or so called ‘jugaad’ in the Indian language come with brilliant solution to day to day problems which are totally out of text book solutions.!!!!!We are shocked, surprised and amused to see that how street smart work pays off to small and little things…the so called jugaad or smart work has led to so many start ups across India addressing small problems and smaller issues..

The same topic is highlighted in the book ‘Working hard is not good enough’ by TVC Prasad.Many times I feel we get carried away by just looking at the number of hours we put in without considering that are we working effectively?? Are we working like robots or machines doing same things repeatedly or are we adding value to the work by thinking of simple solutions to the problems .When we ask ourselves how did automation evolve??it was this line of thinking by some lazy bunch of people who wanted to communicate without physically going to that place giving rise to telecomm industry….in the industries  ….giving birth to robots who could reduce all the hard work by humans…I can give tons of such examples...So what do we conclude from this??...that it is always the brain. The central processing unit of human beings which is the most powerful thing he /she has which will always come up with smart solutions  and always prove that  ‘working  HARD is not good enough’…..