Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,999.

We're getting closer. Actually, tomorrow is the day for 2000. Thanks for being with me.

And this episode, I want to read to you something that I got from Brain Food. It's from Shane Parrish.

It's a newsletter. I don't sign up for a lot of newsletters. And this is one I not only sign up

for, but I read every single time. Shane Parrish is awesome. Great person as well. In this one,

he talks about the different types of hard work. We always hear about hard work. We preach it. We hope to

display it. We encourage our family members and our employees to do this. And he comes up with

five different ways to show hard work. Number one, out thinking. There is a better strategy or a shortcut. Hard work in a

form of thinking, pausing and thinking, or in other words, strategizing. Number two, just pure effort.

This is working longer with more intensity. This is when you just put straight up effort into

what you do. And in hard work, you can see that a lot, especially in athletics. You can look and

see how hard somebody is working through the output, the energy expenditure that they're putting out.

So number three is opportunistic hard work. This is positioning yourself

to take advantage of change. Being able to, you see change coming. You know transition is going to happen.

And so you position yourself to be there when the wave hits. You're getting ready to ride the wave.

And so it might not look like you're

working hard, but it's very smart. Kind of like number one and number two combined. Number four,

consistency. This is doing average things for a very long time. Consistency over intensity. Just that

drip effort every single day. And number five is focus,

hard work in a form of saying no to distractions. And so there you have it. Five types of hard work.

Outthinking, pure effort, opportunistic, consistency, and focus. And it goes on to say that each of these require a

different type of hard work. And so my question to you is, which one of those really resonate with you?

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