Working hard

Working excessively
Being a workaholic
Being addicted to work

Description

Working hard involves sustained, focused effort towards achieving specific goals, often requiring persistence, discipline, and resilience. This strategy addresses problems such as underperformance, skill gaps, and unmet objectives by promoting diligent action, time management, and continuous improvement. Its practical intent is to overcome obstacles, increase productivity, and realize desired outcomes through consistent application of energy and resources, thereby remedying inefficiency and enabling progress in personal, organizational, or societal contexts.

Claim

Most of the great things that have been done throughout history have been done by people who put more effort into their work than most. People who are absolutely average and normal achieve much less. It is doubtful if there is one major reform, for example, that has not required a at least one person to work "excessively" for it.

People who work excessively but love it and thrive on it are not workaholics, although they may be a bother to their friends and relatives.