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It’s also difficult to understand who her target audience actually is. As someone who is partially self employed, a few of her ‘tips’ would come in useful for me I’m sure, but I can’t see these being actionable in most workplaces. The ‘working hard’ section is very repetitive and could’ve been summed up in about 4 bullet points rather than chapters. Also, I find this book very repetitive. My mind literally went blank while reading some parts. It almost looks like something I could have written in high school. It’s just the same concept over and over again. But today in Modern English, as you know, “hardly” usually means scarcely, probably not, certainly not, or with great difficulty, while “hard” (a bare or flat adverb with no “-ly” ending) still has those Old and Middle English adverbial senses. Something I enjoy while reading this kind of books is the science at the basis of concepts. Or at least the account of other people’s personal experiences. There is nothing about that here. This is a book about Grace. Currency exchange is available in 30+ currencies with no fees Monday-Friday, within your plan allowance. Revolut Shops subject to change, and T&Cs apply.
Climate justice activist Mikaela Loach advocates for environmental justice, racial justice, sustainable fashion, and fights human rights issues. Along with her fearless attitude, Mikaela has been hailed as a leading influencer in the climate change crisis, in 2019 she even took the government to court for using taxpayers money to fund North Sea oil and gas companies supported by the environmental non profit Uplift and the Paid to Pollute campaign. Triumphant, Mikaela forced the government to admit in court that they had given these tax breaks. The meaning of “hardly” began changing in the 16th century, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, though some of its old senses still show up once in a while. Thus the two adverbs went their separate ways. The OED says the Old English and Middle English senses of “hardly” (energetically, forcefully, strenuously, or fiercely) are now archaic, obsolete, or rare. Credit to Grace for curating some really interesting research and clearly being very knowledgeable on business and the working environment today. Sadly, the way that research was presented was a little bland and repetitive for my liking. This is a surprisingly dense book yet I don't feel like I absorbed much of what it was saying.In this episode we give a spotlight into the climate change crisis, why it’s important to stand up for what you believe and Mikaela comes armed with the do’s and don'ts. Perhaps more helpful for the generation younger than me (And I’m only 26, for reference) who are just starting out in the working world - I can’t say I learnt anything!
Ep.57 So You Want To Educate Yourself On The Climate Crisis? Start Here with Mikaela Loach. Oct 09, 2023 Q: I’m curious about the use of “hard” and “hardly” in that old play on words, “Are you working hard or hardly working?” Do the two usages have the same derivation or are they from different sources? In Old English, the adverbs “hardly” and “hard” were heardlice and hearde ( -lice and -e were adverbial endings). Both can be traced to hardu-, a root reconstructed from prehistoric Germanic, according to The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots. The ultimate source was apparently the Proto-Indo-European root kar- or ker- (hard). Think of it as a school of life. You’ll come away from each episode with actionable advice to help you achieve balance, success, and fulfilment whether you’re working hard, or hardly working.
Number one: priorities. You can plan everything in the world, but if you're not doing the things you should actually be doing, then you're going to have a problem. One of the things I find really helpful for that is the Eisenhower matrix, which ranks things on importance and urgency and gives you a square where you can say, OK, these are the things that I need to be doing. Unfortunately this read to me like a blog post that was fluffed out to meet a book publishers word count. In the 16th century, English writers began using “hardly” to mean “to an insignificant degree; scarcely, barely; not quite; almost not at all,” according to the dictionary, which describes this as “now the usual sense.”
Grace is 24 years old and has build 2 companies already. I have followed her for 5+ years on social media and she always comes across as forward thinking and having an understanding of matters of millennial’s + gen z‘s. The narrative reads as a validating dialogue to any young worker trying to navigate the modern world. It can be read as a very generalised perspective of the workplace but Grace caveats her personal position by declaring her privileges to give context to her journey as a CEO of two businesses. This naturally gives a privileged position to her perspective, yet she suggests we all have vastly different experiences of work and her privileges are not lost on her. Referring to being deaf as her ‘Superpower’, Tasha was born deaf - with her parents identifying her disability when she was just 12 months old - and wears a cochlear implant in her right ear. She launched her own podcast ‘Superpowers with Tasha’’ in February 2023, which focuses on normalising disabilities and explores what once made her feel like an outcast now being her greatest source of strength and community.The earliest OED example for the adverb “hard” is from Crist III, an anonymous Old English poem about the Last Judgment: “Nis ænig wundor hu him woruldmonna seo unclæne gecynd … hearde ondrede” (“It is not any wonder how hard he dreaded the unclean nature of man on earth”). Insightful, curious and refreshingly honest, Working Hard, Hardly Working will make you reflect on what you want from your life and work - and then help you chart your path to get there.
in this week's solo episode we're looking at how to stand out from a job application alone - from the POV of someone who's been going through application after application! i've been hiring a LOT this year and I've learned so much as to what stands out, and what is an absolute no-go, especially in a really competitive market.Grace admits at one point in the book that when she started writing it, she had no idea what she was going to say, and to be honest that’s very evident when you’re reading it. There are a few good points made, but certainly not enough to write a book. At the end of most chapters it felt very unclear what point, if any, she was trying to make. Not all tasks require the same level of concentration of you, and therefore, it is important to do what works for you and not necessarily what is recommended by others. In the book, I have a whole chapter called The Productivity Method. I talk about things like work-life balance and the myths around this, and what's completely wrong about those myths, but also how to balance better. I think one of the most important things is really knowing how to see what’s most important in your work so that beyond that, you can spend more time doing other things that you love. There's nothing wrong with that. There’s definitely a new view that you have to absolutely love every second of your work, but you can actually just be really good at getting the work done, do really well at that, and also enjoy all the other things in your life, too. So, I think the most important thing is prioritising planning and time management. We’ve internalised the idea that we should be working all the time, and every time we're not working, we're losing money
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