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	Hardwork redefined!

Rashid Malik

12-30-2008 6:47 AM

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12-30-2008 7:47 AM

tabsey

Gotta be true. I can get lost in a ten word sentence if listening to music.

12-30-2008 8:03 AM

Rashid Malik

And which sentence may it be (I wonder).

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But since the turn of the new millennium, the nature of work has evolved to the point where hard work is becoming less important to a successful work ethic than another, more useful value: attention. 
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Columnist David Brooks, <A href="http://community.nytimes.com/article/comments/2008/12/16/opinion/16brooks.html">commenting in the Dec. 16th</A> <I>New York Times</I> about Malcolm Gladwell's latest book called "<I>Outliers</I>," made a statement as profound as it was accurate: "Control of attention is the ultimate individual power," he wrote. "People who can do that are not prisoners of the stimuli around them."
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In a world in which entire industries bet their businesses on gaining access to our attention, which value leads to better personal success: hard work or the ability to control attention? 
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Hard work is dead. Are you paying attention? 
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