Work Hard to be Lazy

어렸을적 과학동아를 정기구독 하던 때 이후로, 잡지와는 담을 쌓고 지내던 내가 군대에 와서 정기구독을 시작한 잡지가 

2개가 있다.

(아쉽게도) 맥심은 아니지만 PC사랑과 마이크로소프트웨어이다.

새싹이라고 하기도 뭐한 프로그래머(?) 지망생이지만 군대의 2년이 빠르게 변하는 IT 세상에서 혼자 도태되기에는 충분한 시간인 것 같아 간접적으로나마 세상 돌아가는 이야기 좀 보고자 구독한 잡지들인데 이게 생각보다 재미나고 매 달 오기가 기다려지게 만드는 녀석들이다.

마이크로소프트웨어 잡지가 내 수준에 많이 어렵기는 하지만 '아...이런 세상도 있구나' 라는 걸 느끼기에는 충분해서 참 마음에 든다.

오늘 좀 늦게 도착한 9월 잡지를 보다가 인생 좌우명을 발견했다.

"Work Hard to be Lazy"

평소 내 신념을 참 정확하게 표현해주는 문장이었다. 아니, 구어인가.

오늘부터 내 좌우명은 이거닷!

One of the best motivators for getting things done is the relaxing free time at the end of the day/week. “Working hard to be lazy basically means investing the extra effort (working hard) at first so that it will pay off in the long run (be lazy).” Vivek Mahbubani gives tips on how to get to “lazy” faster without substituting quality.

Re-evaluate your work processes
The lazy man will try to accomplish 2 hours worth of work in 1 hour’s time but sometimes at the expense of the work’s quality. Think of it as efficiency = quality/time taken (referencing speed = distance/over). If the time taken is reduced, either the job’s quality has to be lowered or the efficiency must be increased. Efficiency really relates to the work process. So in order to keep the quality the same and reduce the time taken, the work process must be changed.

Don’t repeat yourself
After evaluating what you do, you may have some ideas of what you want to improve or modify. Break it down to its core.

Try a new process
Be open to completely changing the way you work. You can’t expect to become more productive unless you pay a price at first.

Refine yourself
By refining yourself I mean going through this work hard to be lazy process in iterations. Try a new process, if that doesn’t help as much as you hoped, try another process. The worst thing that could happen is that you don’t find any improvement in your work process and go back to your original process and just work hard. Did you lose anything?

from : http://www.lifehack.org