Does MORE Efforts Mean MORE Success?

 

Does MORE Efforts Mean MORE Success?  Easy answer, dude.  It's both a YES and a NO.  WHY?  Because there are one too many iterations that will prove us right, that MORE EFFORTS mean MORE SUCCESS.  We DON'T need to look far.  Just reflect on the success stories of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Paul Zuckerberg and Bill Gates.  If they have anything in common besides being the top billionaires till to date, it's the fact that they are the best concrete proofs that MORE EFFORTS mean MORE SUCCESS.  BUT how do we counter that proposition that LESS EFFORTS mean MORE SUCCESS as well?  YES and YES, there are tons of narratives that have proven LESS EFFORTS can still lead us to SUCCESS.  The argument here lies on an assumption that if you put in LESS EFFORTS in your endeavor, once you fail OR flop, WHEN you look back and analyze things, there are fewer things to peruse and that's efficiency per se📗📙📘

One too many studies and researches have been done to dissect the correlation of EFFORTS to SUCCESS and 75% of those results point to the same conclusion, that is, SUCCESS IS NOT DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO EFFORT.  The bottom-line here is the EFFORT itself.  Is your EFFORT moving the needle?  BTW, NOT every effort is justified.  In fact, exerting EFFORTS for the sake of exerting it is an exercise in futility and nothing less as SUCCESS is absolutely about WHAT you focus on and HOW effective you use your time to achieve those goals💚💛💜

Frankly and bluntly, just because you TRIED hard DOESN'T mean that that will work OR simply put, that you will succeed!@#$%?  Let's face it, millions of people have become too preoccupied with that 'grind' and the truth is, it is actually burning them out.  YES, by all means, you can TRY.  WHY NOT?  BUT please, let us pursue it with a better and preferably strategic approach.  BTW, EFFORT is just one component of our road to SUCCESS BUT it's NEVER the 'BE ALL'📌📌📌

Other than EFFORT, let us NOT overlook that the equation of SUCCESS encompasses various key variables like SKILL, EFFECTIVENESS, RESOURCES and even LUCK.  And to top it all, the appropriate 'matching' of all the above to the task at hand.  And people with low skills, NO matter HOW much effort they put in, will NOT be successful at accomplishing their goals beyond their competency💥💥💥

Our takeaway:  As outliers, let us ignore those lottery winners WHO became successful even with nary an effort.  On the other hand, many more people work way beyond 40 hours per week.  BUT WHAT's the narrative we will hear?  It's that they have little result to show, if at all.  In short, spending a hell lot of time doing something DOES NOT necessarily mean that you have accomplished anything useful.  YES, you can spend donkey hours on a single task only to realize that you are doing it all wrong.  Dude, NOT ALL EFFORT IS EQUAL.  And in the real world, nobody cares HOW much effort you put in.  Instead, many of our stakeholders care about the results.  That's WHY we would hear KPI's and OKR's, metrices that support the hypothesis that MORE EFFORTS does NOT necessarily mean MORE SUCCESS!!!