What’s with there being 2 camps — working smart or working hard? Shouldn’t it be both?
When I work hard and not smart, I’m projecting an undereducated, pure labor for dollars persona, and that’s not what I represent.
When I work smart and not hard, that’s just arrogance. Then again this means we need to define smart: it’s one thing to be smart and go to work, but it’s another to be enterprising and innovative and action-oriented while at work, and that to me is smart.
It doesn’t take a high IQ or outlandish Ivy League education to be smart and accomplish great things, but it does require hard work. Nor will working like a gimp for the rest of your life without progression.
I like the Gary Vee method: work super hard and have faith the rest will fall in place.