Dear readers, tell me please. Which one is more important? Efforts or results?
In this world, it seems effort has no important role in our lives. It seems everything is owned by result. See people around you as example.
It is ‘useless’ (I put a bracket because it is arguable) if a student studies very hard, harder than anyone else. Yet his result is mediocre or lower compared to others. And another student who study less and get a lot better result will have all the glory in the world. He will be praised, given prizes, given scholarships and etc because of his RESULTS, not EFFORTS.
No this isn’t just about academic results. Even in working world, workers who have poor results will be angered by the boss even if he put a lot of effort in his work. A worker can get promotion if he shows good results, regardless of the effort he put whether it is a lot or close to none.
And, if there is two workers who have same good results, one puts a lot effort in it and another one does not, the one without troublesome effort will ‘win’ because he seems to have more potential in growth, as he can yield good results without a lot of efforts.
Yeah, one may argue that results are shown by effort. The more effort you put, the better result you will gain but this is not true in all situation. Most people, I believe has witnessed people with ‘talents’ that make them gain good results with low effort. And some people get good result by luck, but the good result won’t maintain though.
Should the world change to recognize efforts more that results? Then you will see in an advertisement, “Selling car, low performance but made with high efforts from highly dedicated workers”.
But, this does not mean people with good results do no efforts. It is just some people get it easier that others. It is like their efforts automatically multiplies, making much more than the rest.
Probably, results don’t really depends on efforts. Seems like there is something else than that which will give us good results.
Efforts can only be recognized by sympathy. Like a father who pities his child who tried hard in something but made poor result. “Pity him. He tried all his best, working non-stop for years. Yet, he still doesn’t get promoted due to his poor results.”
To be honest, I have been thinking of this thing for years, and came to various hypothetically conclusion. Why do I start to think of it? It is because I know someone, who gets good result in academic, yet his friends keep telling other people that what he does is only sleeping. (Please don’t think of anyone)
Imagine, you studied physics for a week and get 60% marks, but another person studied it in just a night and get 90% marks.
And sometimes, when I fail after I tried hard, I said to myself, “At least I put a lot of effort in it”. Yet I wasn’t satisfied and questioned myself “What’s the importance of effort when you fail?”
(These conclusions below are just hypothetical, means I do not know if it is true or false. They are just my assumptions.)
One of my hypothetically conclusion is that these people, who yield good results with less efforts actually just do not show their effort. Probably they hide their effort in front of other people but when there is no person around, they also do the efforts. Or maybe, their efforts are hardly visible. Like a worker who exercised every morning before going to work but get good result with normal effort in office.
Another possible conclusion is that they do effort in much profitable way. It is just like the term “don’t study hard but study smart”. They may even not notice that they are using a good mechanism to yield the results. The last possible conclusion I am gonna put here is that the results might be caused by long-term investment of the person which is hardly visible as to it now.
I do not know for sure what is the real answer, what is the actual “recipe” for great result.
So, where does effort stand?
-Muhammad Hilmi-
