“Watson and Crick, who discovered the structure of DNA, are described in Richard Ogle's book Smart World: At times the two central protagonists behaved like people whose day job was working up skits for Monty Python....they had distinctly lackadaisical work habits. Watson played several sets of tennis every afternoon and spent his evenings alternately chasing 'popsies' at Cambridge parties and going to the movies. Crick, who rarely showed up at the lab before 10 AM and took a coffee break and hour later repeatedly appeared to lose interest in the problem of DNA. On more than one occasion, vital piece of information were obtained not through hard work but as a result of chance conversations in the tea line at the Cavendish laboratory.” - × × ×

“Much more important than working hard is knowing how to find the right thing to work on. Paying attention to what is going on in the world. Seeing patterns. Seeing things as they are rather than how you want them to be. Being able to read what people want. Putting yourself in the right place where information is flowing freely and interesting new juxtapositions can be seen. But you can save yourself a lot of time by working on the right thing. Working hard, even, if that's what you like to do.” #grind_is_good - × × ×

Она права, но для меня то, что она описывает в последнем параграфе, и есть working hard. Во всех смыслах. Для меня это, например, и сложнее всего. - Prometa

"делать вещи правильно" и "делать правильные вещи", грубоватый превод, но смысл, думаю, понятен. Классика. - Nitrixx

Working itself is overrated. You can learn and play - and ignore others calling it "work". - xekc@xekc.com

@xekc sure. plus one. - Alexis Nazarbaev