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As he also said
his engineers put in the hours that he was not
now the question is
WHAT IF THE ENGINEERS ONLY PUT IN THE HOURS THAT HE DID?
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Who was the person who afterwards got world famous? He or his engineers?
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but the question remains when working at the harvard level where talent is neck and neck and they work by the 5% elimination rule, do you put in the hours to get the grade?
At the end of the day, not everyone is talented enough to put in average time and still get a good grade. few of us could do a 4 wk assignment in one night and still get a top mark. But for me, I paid for it big time in Uni
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You assume that the amount of work is the only variable that can be changed.
Cal Newport did a lot of surveying of successful students and found that good work habits are a lot more important than the amount of work.
Focus is more important than the amount.
In addition grades at as an undergraduate in universities like the University of Chicago
are uncorrelated with later success in life.
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are you saying people who work hard dont work smart cos that what it looks like you are implying? so what is your opinion on steve article on hard work in the 5 pillars of self discipline
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If you work 80 hours per week you probably don't have the mental capacity to be creative anymore and come up with good new ideas.
Other people like Tim Ferris and Nassim Taleb that I intellectually respect also don't like the concept of working long hours.
Both rather talk about focusing on that work that really matters.
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now we were talking about the production of world class work.
lets take medical students. they put in very long hours doing intense work.
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By the very definition of world class, most medical students aren't world class.
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And actually I don't think Steve works hard. Try asking him. I bet the time he spends blogging per week is way lower than the average time an office worker in his city spends at the office per week.
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I think Steve spends less than 20 hours/week blogging but it's not the only thing Steve is doing.