I was immediately intrigued when I opened the platform and found this contest. It didn't take long, I immediately opened a new page to write my opinion according to the topic of the challenge. why am i so interested? Because in the midst of such rapid technological developments, it turns out that there are still a lot of hard working people out there. Even so hard to make their health disturbed.

In fact, if they are willing to spend just a little time to plan what things need to be done, how much time is available, what tools can be used to accelerate the achievement of results or outputs, they will not suffer that much. But that's a choice. Maybe for those who still choose to work hard, think smart work is not too challenging or less exciting.

So according to my understanding the difference between the two is quite simple. As simple as my explanation in the first paragraph. Hard work is work done by relying on energy and requires a longer time. Work without the support of careful planning, without the support of sufficient tools and even without the support of a competent team.

On the other hand, smart work is work that always begins with good planning, time analysis and selecting the right tools needed and choosing a team with great competence.

Work hard and work smart, which one is better to boost productivity?

Of course smart work will be better and produce according to projections. Because apart from planning and analysis, smart work can also be supported by the right tools or devices.

Currently we all work by prioritizing smart work. Predominantly our choice in that direction. Even though you can't let go of working hard at all, maybe the percentage is very small. An example is when we compiled the voter list for the 2024 election.

After we received the data from PPS and PPK, we immediately formed a team, gave directions, made schedules and prepared the necessary technological devices. Make sure everything goes as desired. As a result, we were able to complete more than 130 thousand voter data clean from duplicates, invalid data or data that did not meet the requirements.

I have joined this platform since June 19 2017. This means that on June 17 next month, it will be six years already. I don't know how many million words I've written here, I've put out so many ideas and thoughts. all provide invaluable positive energy. Because of that, to be honest I am very happy to find this platform. Many times I even thanked my best friend @ayijufridar for inviting me to create an account that day.

For the hard work of the Steemit Team, I can't thank you enough.

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I invite my colleagues @sazaliza @munaa and @abufarras to contribute to this challenge.

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Zainal Bakri

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