I think the perspective of this article is wrong. The author says that if you're not working hard, you're not learning. "Working hard" implies stress. It's hard

I think the perspective of this article is wrong. The author says that if you're not working hard, you're not learning. "Working hard" implies stress. It's hard to learn under stress. When I was young, I used to take piano lessons. The best way to learn a new piece was to take it slow, one step at time, calmly. Whenever I got stressed, I would stop learning and make stupid mistakes. Learning is best done stress-free, at a pace that feels leisurely, but where progress is steady. "Winning" depends not on one's capacity to endure stress (work hard), but on focusing on the right activities over time. So in classical music, the winner is the one who spends more hours of fruitful practice than one who works harder during the recitals. In school, the winner is the one who thinks about the material more during the course, not the one who crams before the exam. I think this most true in business. The business winner is the one who steadily improves or who operates in a different way, rather than the one who is most stressed out. Stress is generally destructive. It should be minimized. The focus needs to be on steady, stress-free or even playful, practice. If you have an idea, just start playing with it. Don't expect to "win" with it in a short session of "hard work." You need to be biased towards action. If action implies something unpleasant, you'll avoid it and stress about it. That's why so many people recommend that you do what you love.