Hard Work vs. Effort
Capitalism.com with Ryan Daniel Moran
Capitalism.com
4.8 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Everyone wants to reverse engineer the successes of the most rich and famous people in the world...
That strategy might look good on the surface, but in reality, it never works. You and I can never be Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk - and we shouldn't want to be! The secret to success is to be yourself. You can only be you.
In this episode, I'm contrasting two ways I've gone about building my business. One leads to misery. The other one might not seem like it should work, but it's how I've enjoyed the most success. If you focus on building your business from a place of creation instead of a place of desperation, everything changes. Your life and business change when you set out to create something meaningful, not just make profits.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to the podcast. Today we're going to talk about the difference between |
| 0:05.9 | hard work and effort. It's my opinion that if you can understand this distinction, you'll really |
| 0:14.3 | unlock your purpose, you'll unlock your greatest contribution, you'll unlock the highest income that you can possibly |
| 0:24.6 | earn, you'll basically just unlock your potential and your happiness and everything else |
| 0:30.1 | too. |
| 0:30.6 | This is just the magic secret to everything is what I'm saying. |
| 0:34.0 | The difference between hard work and effort is the difference between success and struggle. |
| 0:42.7 | Hard work may be necessary, but effort I define as that thing you've got to tap into to force |
| 0:51.8 | yourself to do something that you don't really want to do. |
| 0:54.7 | That is not why most of us got into the game of entrepreneurship. |
| 0:59.6 | So in a recent YouTube video, I fully explained this difference and how I am processing it. |
| 1:06.2 | I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. |
| 1:08.0 | If you're not following me on YouTube, we're putting some of our |
| 1:11.2 | best content ever out there. Just search my name. And until then, here's the video. |
| 1:16.5 | I've been battling with this internal struggle. I'd say lately, but I think it's actually |
| 1:20.1 | something I've been struggling with for a long time. It has sparked a debate among myself |
| 1:24.1 | and some of my entrepreneur friends about whether or not hard work is required in order |
| 1:30.9 | to be really successful. And there's this difference between what you might call hard work |
| 1:37.4 | and what I would call effort, this idea of trying to force things to move in the direction that you |
| 1:43.3 | want to go. |
| 1:44.2 | And I noticed this internal struggle with myself where I put so much energy into the trying, |
| 1:50.1 | into the effort, into the, into the, trying to get momentum on something, of being motivated |
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