Most times a person is acknowledged for the fact that he is intelligent and/or hardworking. I would really like to know the difference because we use it wrongly in some situations.
In an optimal case one would be intelligent AND hard working, but mostly you have to compensate a lack of intelligence with an increase of working time and vice versa.
The bonus of high intelligence is that the probability of finding more efficient ways of solving problems is higher. However, you also need much experience and sometimes pure luck to come up with a good idea (there is data which suggests that the human brain needs about 10,000 hrs. to train something to perfection - no matter if it's mathematics, music, sport or something else).
Actually there are some scientific studies that suggest that you don't have to be the smartest person in order to be successfull, you just have to be smart enough.
If you are interested in that, I can recommend the book "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell.
To conclude, I would say just try to do everything in the best and most accurate way and don't bother too much about beeing acknowledged, for the best acknowledgement in science is to learn something new and to understand new things.
In an optimal case one would be intelligent AND hard working, but mostly you have to compensate a lack of intelligence with an increase of working time and vice versa.
The bonus of high intelligence is that the probability of finding more efficient ways of solving problems is higher. However, you also need much experience and sometimes pure luck to come up with a good idea (there is data which suggests that the human brain needs about 10,000 hrs. to train something to perfection - no matter if it's mathematics, music, sport or something else).
Actually there are some scientific studies that suggest that you don't have to be the smartest person in order to be successfull, you just have to be smart enough.
If you are interested in that, I can recommend the book "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell.
To conclude, I would say just try to do everything in the best and most accurate way and don't bother too much about beeing acknowledged, for the best acknowledgement in science is to learn something new and to understand new things.
One is God Gifted and hard work is in human beings hands. Regards&Merci.
DEAR Johannes Gruenwald,
You have a nice one there......the book you are recommending, does it have a soft copy?
@Taimur Shams,
so you think INTELLIGENCE is a gift from God?....from your comment don't you think hard work could lead to intelligence?
@Nebi Caka so u think they go side by side? anyway thanks for your contribution it is duly noted.
Being talented or hard-working doesn't guarantee success.
They are two pillars of doing great things, and complementary to
each other.
Dear Onyegu osokam shadrach,
unfortunately I don't have a soft copy of the book, but I am sure it can be found on the internet ;)
Generally, measuring it will also require different approaches. Intelligence is the efficient use of your abilities (there is a famous saying that lazy people are the smartest as they always find ways of solving problems with the least amount of work needed), but also the ability to adopt to new structures and rules. Intelligence is also about finding the right categories for things. Hard work is simply what the word says: Working diligently. Often, a good combination of both is required.
If you are interested in further work, I can recommend research on artifical intelligence and especially measures of intelligence for computers, like the "Chinese room" problem.
@Onyegu what I meant was that with hard work you can just convert core form of carbon into DIAMOND but God created diamond and engulfed it inside black outer cover. Humans are supposed to dig it out and Polish it till finish. Thus in my humble view, intellegence , memory, vision, leadership qualities are God's gifted. One can just polish him or her to become great thinker, visionary, great leader or Nobel prize winner. BUT here is the point to ponder: hard work alone can't make you successful, it is intelligence coupled with focus on right direction. You may call right direction as HARDWORK but for me it is not. Thus for me intelligence supersedes hard work , reverse of it can't make you a successful human being. Dear, this is exclusively my view point, you have all the liberty to disagree. Merci
Intelligencey is a god gift, while hard working is in nature(habbiet). Hard working student of mine were well decipline polite, attending all lectures were getting less score then intelligent eregular massbunkers.
To me, learning by doing is the best option, and talents will certainly have some added facility, but "if you are lazy, that means, you are not talented enough to use your talent properly"
And in case of hard work, rather I would prefer proper work in proper time and in a proper way.
Let’s speak of composers for a moment. I know, music is not a science, but an art, but anyway… It does not matter much hard work was done by composer, without talent there will be no masterpiece. But hardworking composer could be good at mastering background for shows and movies. The same in science – hardworking can produce a lot of not interesting papers, but to generate new ideas intelligence and talent needed. Of course, best of all is to have everything, but…
Inteligence is defined like the capability to resolve a problem, a situation.
Hard work is hard work. With more or less result.
I consider intelligence to be an innate ability to find solutions to problems or handle situation., Although, it can also be developed with everyday experiences. An intelligent person's perception of situations are finer, and responds quicker to circumstances. I think, the Spiritual quality of the individual has a role to play in intelligence. Hardwork is the ability to expend extra efforts in achieving results. When combined with intelligence, the results are fantastic, and ingenuity comes into play.
The difference between Intelligence and hard work is the same as the difference between smart work and hard work. The first, because it is better planned and managed, is achieved faster, with less effort.
Nice question and answers, but most of intelligent persons are lazy!
I agree with the responses of all learned contributiors, naturally my humble response is same or similar. I like my friend Issam's simile of smart work and hard work. But, my observation is that intelligence is God gifted quality. However, hard work pays and one can make up for lack of intelligence because hard work give opportunity to learn in the process or during long experience. My experience is that hardworking persons in any field are sometimes rather most times well known while intelligent persons in that field are less known. I think at least in Indian conditions both are rarely seen together and when they are their is a genius.
Intelligence and hard work, if combined, is a great key to success ! As rightly pointed out, intelligence is a gift of your genes but hard word has to be in your habits or a part of your nature ! Difference between the two is that intelligence is an inborn quality of high intellectual capacity while hard work is the willingness and strength of a person to work to his full capacity !
I think that is important to remark the fact that if a person had intelligence but don't do the hardwork necessary to develop and improve that skill (if we consider the intelligence like a skill), that skill will be degraded consequently with the time
Intelligence + Hardwork ----> Excellence
Intelligence has to be harnessed and nutured with hardwork in a dynamically changing environment that we live in, else it will degrade.
Hardwork with no intelligence: Hey, are we on this site talking about this?
Dr. Lushaj,
I find in my humble opinion difficult to maintain your generalisation, “Each one of them means nothing”. To some extent hard work cannot alone make a noted and well-known. But, it cannot be said with some conviction in the case of intelligence. An intelligent person may be academically least productive, but source of new ideas and perspective as well as guide others to look at a problem from a different angle and can suggest how it can be solved. Others may take clues from him and develop new ideas, generate theories and his ideas may go down deep in a field and may be explored by generations. A boy, asked to add a series of numbers, develops solutions in terms of sums of algebraic series, while the teacher labouring hard over the years to make his pupils to add such series, could not solve the problem in terms of algebraic series. However, it is true that in the case of hard work, it to some extent compensates one’s lack of intelligence becoming more productive and known for one’s work in academic world.
We often say that some of our students are ‘intelligent’ (“having or showing the ability to easily learn or understand things or to deal with new or difficult situations”, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intelligent). That doesn’t mean that all the other of our students are stupid.
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I think this is a question that is difficult to answer accurately because of the way it is phrased. The measure of success cannot be derived from a normalized logical vector with scalar measurable components of intelligence and hard work. Success is a relative term. Intelligence is not a scalar quantity and in my opinion is nearly impossible to measure. There are many types of intelligence and the type that would best be focussed on by a person is one that they have the capacity to excel in. If they push hard on that with hard work, they will by definition have succeeded. Whether others recognize that is a different question. It's a matter of opinion, but that is mine.
what is intelligence and what is hard work?
Being survival is intelligence and being surviving is hard work. Thus each and every animate and inanimate is being intelligence and being hard working!
where is intelligence and where is hard work?
Intelligence comes with the factor of survival of the fittest; and that follows hard work.
when to apply intelligence and when to apply hard work?
Thoughts make to become intelligence and thus follows hard work.
who is intelligent and who is hard working?
All are intelligent and all are hard working in their own style and fashion.
How is intelligence and how is hard work?
Intelligence itself is a false EGO; and thinking of hard work itself is a SIN. Ask yourself. Are you intelligent? May be in one particular aspect. Not in ALL. Are you working hard? NO its your DUTY that you are doing. Enjoying what you do is happiness and satisfaction. That's it. There is no room for hard work. Doing hard work for your own survival is not hard work but you are doing it for your own survival.
In which field to apply intelligence and hard work?
Doing any activity for SELF in any field is just not intelligence and your hard work gets nullified because your hard work is for your SELF ONLY.
@Sunitha
Nice Description!
It seems that you have done lot of work on Intelligence and Hard work.
Regards,
Nitish
@Sunitha N Seenappa,
nice response but I want to ask you a question "is intelligence also seen as a talent?"
I could remember my undergraduate days in the university, I use to have two friends, one is so hardworking, he spends about 18 hours in a day studying while the other barely spends 2 hours a day on his studies but after taking exams the 2 hours guy always take the day when results are published. So, from this analysis could someone say that being INTELLIGENT pays more than HARD WORK?
That of course would require generalisation, Onyegu osokam shadrach, but the though t is an interesting one. Does the "2 hour" person learn faster because he has an easier internal access to the facts? Does he build better mnemonics? Or does he concentrate on important facts and connections between things over learning by heart?
His intelligence certainly makes his learning more efficient, but as Edward Colbert rightly pointed out, measuring that intelligence is of questionable feasability. There is even discussion about what intelligence generally is, which, combined with the fuzzy effects and relations it has, make this nearly impossible. This is even true for artifical intelligence, were people build up all of the intelligent components: A quiz computer like IBM's Watson is certainly behaving efficient, but its intelligence is another matter entirely...
@Malte Buß
So, this is a situation whereby INTELLIGENCE defeats HARD WORK but I also believe that there are cases whereby HARD WORK takes the day.....take for instance FOOTBALL, we have people that are hard working and it is paying off. I believe that HARDWORK AND INTELLIGENCE have their singular and special comfort zones.
You make a good point, @Onyegu osokam shadrach, as a martial arts trainer, I often notice intelligent people overthinking more physical or intuition guided tasks. This of course can not be compared with robots.
Even a football player, or fighter in this case, will benefit from an intelligent training plan though (which is often designed by other people for competitive players), an intelligent diet and so forth. So intelligence DOES make a difference here.
The general difference further increases the difficulty in measuring though, for example, for tasks involving communication with humans, "emotional intelligence" might be required, which of course is not the same thing as intelligence.
From this, ACADEMICALLY; I think Intelligence refers to THE MENTAL EFFICIENCY IN a given undertaking while hard working refers to EFFORT (mental or/and physical) TO a given undertaking.
My dear Onyegu osokam shadrach,
Your point is quite valid and is a general observation. Go back to my earlier response where a boy develops formula (s) for the sum of algebraic series. It means, it is not talent, talent may be produced by regress training, by high quality education, but it is confined to a very specific domain where he is less likely to make mistake than an intelligent one. However, it is either inborn quality or genetic stuff or gift of God as in my country such students are described as gifted ones. Intelligence is not limited to do learn or grasps quickly main points of lectures made in the class room rather to struggle with them. It is also associated with novelty or imagination, discovery and innovation. If their 2 hour studies make them wise, it is not strange. But in later period in spite of new ideas and innovations which they can develop, if they remain in search of perfection, mostly intelligent people do not like to make small changes or repeat whatever all read have been said in a new composition, they become less productive, while a hard learning all basics hard-way adopts what they usually intelligent shun, they may shine.
You are right from this perspective ! Both intelligence and hard work are equally important, one cannot be belittled than the other. A laborer using intelligence along with hard work, will be smarter than the one who doesn't ! A professional who employs hard work with intelligence will definitely be smarter than the one who doesn't !
Srikanth & Jaya,
I do not like a circular argument. In this way you both are right as well as wrong. Remember the saying, "hard work pays" and it is also true a mechanics knows a car better than an automobile engineer (s) or engineers who designed a car on the basis of their knowledge of technology involved, while the mechanics does not have that knowledge. What is your reaction to this situation that is very common and well- known in our country.
Hard work is the capacity to behave into an environment to produce successful task, intelligence is not necessary, Actually I believe intelligence is not necessary at all, because you create behaviors to adapt to the environment and this is something given to all species to survive in the planet
No amount of hard work can make up for lack of intelligence, and no amount of intelligence can make up for lack of hard work.
@Mohammad Firoz Khan, hard work pays definitely but intelligent hard work definitely pays more! I think everyone will agree with that :)) question has been basically asked from academic point of view and I think, in this context, intelligence plays a more important role! Actually, I do not think this is an argument, it is an observation after many years of teaching ! Blind, unintelligent hard work may lead to disappointment :((
When considering any aspect from academic view shall not satisfy complete answer.
Life is not academic; academic is not life. Life is meager percentage of academic , it is not whole thing.
Academic is the concepts of the West. Eastern concepts are completeness. Completeness gives satisfaction and enjoyment. When considering from academic point of view COMPARISON BUILDS UP. Each person is specific and his/her genes are specific.
Why one achieves and the other is not, 'cause the former is in the track of his/her likings while the other has not.
Academic we think has better scope for survival and better chance of getting identified. That's it. It is the concept of westernization. Just think we still have native forest dwellers across the world. There each one are not identified based on intelligence but are identified as group activities, bondedness and togetherness. There is no individual identity.
The person with hard work and the person studied for 2hrs only. The former is in the tortoise race the latter is in the rabbit race. The former is shaping for whole life as successful one, the latter may not find comfortness in later life. Because early achievers shall shorten their goals with immediate satisfaction. The hardworkers retain their challenging aspects and mentally develop strength and completeness.
The type of hard working in what direction and changing thinking according to the needs and repetitive thinking is required. One must goal for long-term memory. Short-term memory may climb to certain level only.
On the other hand, only hard working has no means unless practicality in intelligence is applied. All are born with the same basic skills. Permutations and combinations in doings makes one successful.
Hardwork + intelligence = success
Intelligence + Hardwork = success
Both are same. In the former by applying hardwork intelligence builds up with repetition. In the latter, applying intelligence hardwork is done.
In a long hrs studying guy and a 2hrs studying guy:
The former simply working hard; the latter may have touched the books for 2hrs but his mind would be thinking on the aspects for the rest of 22hrs probably and applied physically for 2hrs thats it. or may be the latter had lost his earlier chance and might have been successful in other chances. While the former one has missed it now and shall do it next time. Not all are born at the same time. Like wise achievements also does not happen to all at one time. There is always better chance next time.
@Oneygu: what is that you are really LOOKING AT?! To become intelligent in a shorter time and to seek comfort zone at the earliest. That is not what neither academic nor life is all about. For me life is every moment of academic that means simply learning and analysing as life comes and as I do; I meant to say that life is full of learning in all possible aspects all through the day and night. There is no "fail"or "pass". Fail / want to give up - then change for the better another one; pass then if mind says yes continue with it.
I think there are two kind of researchs, the research whose polish ideas of others, new methods whose can bring new set of applications, etc., that complete this beginning of a new way, with hard work. And the research whose Make this new ideas, methods, new poin of view, always creative, and for that more expected and appreciated. Novel idea without previous basis needs a creative and logic mind, we can call intelligent, I think. Complete novel idea is Creation.
From my personal perspective I believe HARD WORK polishes INTELLIGENCE.
but I believe you won't argue the fact that most intelligent people are lazy based on the fact that they always explore the easiest possible means of getting a work done.
@ Onyegu, Yes, Most intellectuals explore the easiest possible means. But not in every aspect/angles. Most of them shall be restless, impatient; because they are used to early results. Early results shall have shorter goals and immediate satisfaction shall bring boredom unless they enter into new avenues.
I think intelligence is more inherent. Intelligence can not surely bring success. It needs hardwording together to obtain success.
Intelligence can be the base, and hardworking is the force to push towards success.
The persons who have scientific temprament are much systamatic, because they follow the definetion of science.
Means they do any thing a systamatic and step by step way.
A higher intellectual person is able to resist mass degradation, meanness, time serving. This person neglects the principle of "a salt cucumber"- if we place a fresh cucumber into the pickle salt solution with the salt cucumbers, it will become salt, too.To Dostoevsky ("Demons"), "in the situation of the economical, social, moral crises there is the environment , where "rabble" and its "cutting-edge" leaders feel themselves in freedom...Meanwhile the most worthless people outweighed the best ones and they began criticizing the sacred, although they had kept silence before .On the contrary, the best people, who had outweighed before, began listening to them and keeping silence. And the third group of people began sniggering in a disgraceful way". To Dostoevsky ("The notes from Dead House"), "every greenhorn in the jail became to the same person as the rest in two hours after arriving. It wasn't with the noble aristocrat.But even If he were fair, kind, intellectual, he would be hated, despised by the mass". I think, a highly intellectual person has one's own opinion, an original way of thinking and can hold one's own in the difficult psychological situation. An intellectual has a steadfast conviction, assurance in something. To F. de V.Galilei, "Eppur is muove!"
First intelligence is not a kind of unchanging aspect we are borned with. Secondly intelligence is not an ability to accurately and rapidly learn what other people want you to learn. Intelligence has more to do with a capacity to keep our natural creativity in spite of the pressure of conformity which increase with education and with power and responsability. We observe a general decrease of the capacity to create from the time we get in school around five years old. How can someone resist the destruction his/her natural capacity to create under societal pressure?
Obscurantism may be inherent to scientists. In 20 c. there was scientific obscurantism, called "lysenkovshchina" (fight against genetics), nowadays - so called "fomenkovshchina" ("false" history). These "scientists" are full of ignorance, a priority, hatred. They worked to please pillars of society, or ad captandum vulgus. No secret, that some "scientists" bought or stole thoughts for their degrees, seeing in their theses a sign of prestige only. I'm sure, a true scientist has a powerful intellect, and moral internal reference.This moral stoic with gigantic intellect is hard-working, he is captured by ideas and aspires to self-actualization, and self-development.
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