Working smart
I used to think that “working smart”, as in the expression “Don’t work hard, work smart“, was essentially the same thing as being lazy. Because the smart work of some seems to go further than the hard work of others, those who have a capacity for smart work don’t seem to work very hard or very often. But I realize now that working smart has less in common with laziness than it does with efficiency. For every task, there is precisely one way to carry it out using the least amount of energy. Thus, it is an occupation to spend your time just thinking about working, so that when you do work it is always to great effect.