Outlook: Smart work, a work of great merit?

Origin of word:

Define smart (Source – Google): capable of independent and apparently intelligent action, showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness, painfully severe, quick and brisk and also chic: elegant and stylish.

Evolution of word:

People have left both positive and negative terms of smart word and stuck on to its neutral term, chic, elegant and well groomed. In long run, it turned out that, even if you don’t have the capacity to do it, you try to achieve it. Thus it indirectly implies, it is a crooked or cover-up work. So, smart work became skullduggery from directed drudgery.

Vindication:

At this occasion, I would like to recall third grade syllabus to your memory on usage of levers. Do you think expending the energy to move a heavy log would be intelligible or use a lever, exert less pressure at efficacious point would be meaningful? Yes, such utilizable information was taught at tender age, as we grew, we too transformed to crowd our mind with unnecessary information in the name of specialization at expense of basics.

Still finding it difficult to understand, take Need For Speed (NFS game). How many attempts would you take to win the race if you follow the normal route and how many, if you make use of short cuts hidden in the map? Don’t you save time and attempts by exploring short cuts hidden in the map?

From student to today’s military strategist, reconnaissance attacks(model exam, spied info) is the most preferred one to outsmart the competitor. Any Tom, Dick and Harry can do hard work which needs only cent percent commitment. Brute force password attack best exemplifies mere hard work. But to do a smart work, it needs far foresight of results, deep insight of situation and elimination of any possible oversight. Thus devise a foolproof approach to haul definite result utilizing resources in optimized fashion. Sniffer attack, Phishing attacks exemplify smart work. After this sickening scientific explanation, don’t you even have a tinge of feeling that, Smart work too is a hard work, but one with proper direction?

Conclusion:

First version: Hard work Latest version: Smart Work