There's two groups of people: Hard workers and lazy workers. I'm convinced that improvements arise from people who exhibit both attributes. Either one alone results in stagnation.
If you have absolutely no problem with working hard, that's good, but there's no motivation or incentive to improve processes. Thus, difficult or time-consuming tasks will remain difficult or time-consuming. Higher-level work (work which uses the work at hand as a stepping stone) continues to take an order of magnitude more resources. Things work, but they don't advance.
On the other hand, if you're not willing to do harder work, then you do have the incentive for improvements, but lack the follow-through. Any externally-developed advancements will get adopted, but only if they actually get created.
It's best to have both attributes: The willingness to put in hard work when necessary, but also a strong desire and preference for easy, lazy approaches. This way, you have both the incentive to create improvements and the follow-through to actually manifest them.
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