Short excerpt from a YouTube video (creator: Clegg) arguing that increasing effort without improving efficiency leads to fatigue and decreasing effectiveness; the speaker asserts that hard work alone does not produce wealth if applied to approaches that are not working.
One of the things that we have to understand is regardless of what level of effectiveness you are operating on, there's always a way and a place and an environment in which we can make ourselves more effective by increasing our efficiency. Now, here's what happens when you increase efficiency. Well, here's what happens when you increase effort. Without increasing efficiency, you become more tired and less effective over time. Are you all tracking? This is why hard work is not the key to wealth. Because the harder you work at what's not working.
The less effective you are and the more exhausted you feel over time.
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