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Are You Really Striving Hard? Or Are You Simply Toiling?

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Do you ever have somebody around you who spend most of their waking hours at work? Whenever you try to ask them out, they claim to be always very busy and have seemingly never-ending work waiting to be completed. However, when you ask around their colleagues and bosses on how they are performing, they shake their heads in disbelief, like they have numerous untold stories to tell. In short, they are really busy, but the work they produce are not pretty. You may wonder, so what are they really busy at? It seems strange that if they were really putting in the hard work, why aren't the work done nicely? Where in the world could be the problem? The problem lies in them not really striving hard. They were simply toiling aimlessly.   Remember an instance when I was still in school, there was a classmate of mine that did the same things that many of the better students did. He spent his time studying whenever he could and he played hard as well. However, his school results were not