Hard Work Defined

I've heard over and over again that the secret to success is hard work and luck. Or intelligence and perspiration. Or 1% ingenuity and 99% tenacity.

Work hard and you'll succeed!

Early to bed and early to rise...

But what is it?

Is it holding a job that makes you leave before your family wakes up and come home in time to put them to bed? Is it spending 20 years in school sacrificing so you can relax and let the money roll in for the rest of your career? If you don't have to work anymore for a paycheck, is there another spiritual benefit to work?

So, I've set up this blog to track my research to try to answer these questions myself and to either celebrate the nobility of hard work or debunk the myth.