You are just pretending to be working hard
A while ago, me and my friend, Charles, meet up and had lunch together. He was complaining about something interesting: The day before the national holiday, Charles and his colleagues need to stay in the office overtime because a project is not completed yet.
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That night at 8 o'clock, they submitted the project plan to the manager and went out for a snack. Around 11 o'clock, they split up and went home. After they were separated, Charles saw one of his colleagues share a post on Facebook. The photo was taken at the colleague's desk, with the word: “So tired, just finished work.”
Charles thinks that it was very funny. Clearly, we finished work at 8 o'clock, but the colleague was pretending to work until late night.
I've been in a similar situation too. I have a friend in college; there was a period, we had a self-study. I remember very clearly, the average three hours of self-study time, he spent two hours playing his phone, spent half an hour eating snacks, and left half an hour to study, and then take a picture of the clock and post to social media.
In the end, after the examination, he complained: “I study so hard every day, why I still can’t get a good grade?”
Hey, in fact, you are just pretending to be hard working on your social media. When you bought a book, you take a picture and upload it to social media, and act like you already read the book. When you can’t sleep at night, you take a picture of the window, add a caption: Have you seen the city 4 o'clock in the morning? As if you had been working late into the night. And when you literally just ran for 5-kilometer, you take a photo with your sweaty shirt and thought of yourself as a fitness talent.
The real effort is not for others to see. It's easy to cheat others, but it's too hard to cheat on yourself.
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During my internship, I worked in a foreign company. The company's staff, every day go out early and come back at dusk, wearing a suit, has an elite appearance. In fact, many people are grinding their time in the company and doing inefficient work.
They do not plan to change to more efficient methods of working, accustomed to meaningless meetings, collation of outdated data. Even after the working hour, to give a good impression to the manager, they will sit in the office, wipe the table or typing on the keyboard to show their diligence.
In the culture of this company, there is a very important thing: No matter how you work, as long as you keep doing something is considered as a good employee.
In fact, this is an "ineffective effort." Because the real effort is not about who spends more time, who work overtime, but is to do it with dedication and enthusiasm.
Besides these people who pretend to be hardworking, there is a kind of person who is really trying, but using the wrong way.
Last year, encouraged by my friends, I applied for a gym membership card. Then it turns out that the proportion of people who sweat on the treadmill is the highest, but the body is generally overweight. And the people with good body shape, like to stay in the equipment area. Also, their exercise time is usually not too long. Warm-up, stretching and then exercise, then leave.
A coach told me: "The whole gym, it seems that the most hardworking is the people who run on the treadmill, but they have the slowest results too."
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I remember during my university life, we have a girl who takes study very seriously. When joining the university, she was determined to get a degree. She always the first person to come to the class every day, she is also the last one to leave the class. In class, most of the students are absent-minded, only her eyes flashing the light of knowledge. When taking note, she was so serious and did not miss any of the notes given by the lecturers. After class, she will block the lecturer and asked tons of questions.
She wanted to copy the courseware in the lecturer’s computer; The seminar that recommended by the lecturer, she will attend every single one. Her daily life is just run back and forth the library and study room.
But the strange thing is, her result has always been in the last place. Any of the students that work hard for a few days can easily surpass her. After every test, she was always broken, crying and said: "I have been working so hard, why I still get a bad result?"
In fact, she did work hard, but toward the wrong direction. Now, in retrospect, she was preoccupied with taking notes and missed the time of thinking and interacting. Just mechanically extract knowledge from courseware to notes. And even after taking notes, she never thinks about what she wrote.
She really worked hard, and the books and notes were all marked with different colors and annotations. But if you ask her a question that stretches out of her textbook, she will just be faltered.
During the school day, the one who always gets good results is never the one who studies all day. The people who really study will spend more time thinking because they know how to weigh the things that are really worth the time, and once they are sure, they will devote their time and energy to the best.
And the low level of efforts, reckless regardless of everything, do first, then think about why. They are not lazy; they just don't want to think.
True effort and diligence do not flow on the surface. Think diligently, find the direction of the efforts to the best.
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