Effort can be either mindless or not. Mindless effort leads to inefficiency, wastage of time.
What is mindless effort?
What is wastage of time?
Spending more time in a task than is optimally required.
How do I know how much time is optimally required?
I learn from experience. I observe myself and see where I could have saved time- where I could have invested it in a more worthy task.
Why should I not waste time?
It leads to inefficiency.
So?
I have assigned priority to many things, possibly to all. I should be spending the maximum time towards the most important thing. If I feel that I could have spent lesser time in a less worthy task, I am being inefficient. If I continue this way, there is no meaning of assigning priorities.
But are not all tasks equal in their worth? Should that not be the case?
And is it not true that I will pay less attention, that I will be less devoted to the tasks that I consider to be less worthy? Should I not be doing every task with complete devotion?
And then what is the meaning of complete devotion? If I am completely devoted to a task, will I care about the time that I am spending in it? Will I care whether it gets finished or not? Will I try to achieve perfection in it irrespective of the effort and time needed? Will I care whether it gets me the result that I wanted, if I was doing this task with a result in mind?
Are all tasks done only because I want some result out of them- an end?
If I have no desire of the result of a particular task, will I still go ahead and do it? Should I? If I do a task due to the desire to achieve a result, but the result is not achieved, does that make my effort useless?
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I was actually thinking of counting the no. of question marks :D, then i thot ki mite as well spend that time in commenting!!!
The point of efficiency is I believe only required when one desires to achieve a certain goal which one deems beneficial. However, one rarely comes across such goals in one's life; we are just given goals by the society which we are expected to complete.
However, efficiently completing jobs becomes more of a skill with experience. This would be critical at the time of completing goals that one seems of utmost importance.
Hence, the success of the earlier (society-driven) goals isn't critical. Failures could lead to a better learning.
However, the success of (self-made) goals could be important for both oneself and in the greater scheme of things. Time for e.g. Budda Einstein hasn't got many years left.... but he is onto something which he knows (may not even need to know) would transform the way ppl understood physics. His efficiency in doing so is critical in the greater scheme of stuff(lets not debate this 4 the while).
However, as you are saying efficiency is always relative and one should try to be relatively efficient in whatever one deems to be of significance.
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