Work Hard or Work Smart?

This reminds me when I was young. You see, I am the 3rd in the brood of 4 boys with a strict father especially when it comes to household chores. When I am assigned to clean the floor, what I do is to use the mop and not the broom. The proper way is the broom first and then the mop. But using the mop would also eradicate all the dirt including the dust. And the application is just the same.

With work in the office, I do some planning so it wouldn't take a lot of time to finish a task. I used to be a computer programmer so you can imagine the tons of work when there is a bug in the program. Instead of proceeding with the coding at once, I painstakingly do the flowcharting which is the architecture of the program. When the flowchart is correctc, the errors in coding is minimized.