Education doesn’t prepare you for the real world. - Shane Parrish

Telling someone to “work smarter” is useless because it assumes they already know what smarter looks like. If they did, they’d be doing it.

“Work smarter, not harder” is often framed as the opposite of hard work, but working smart is itself a derivative of hard work. You have to work hard to figure out what working smart means.

It’s like a chess master spotting the best move instantly; it looks like working smart, but it’s built on thousands of hours of working hard to earn that intuition.

What looks like working smarter is often just contextual insights uncovered through deep, sustained effort that others would find unreasonable.

Best practices aren’t always the best. By definition, they’re average.

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