And, as a matter of fact, one does not actually know how smart one is being without already having been willing to work hard. It takes work to make real confirm

And, as a matter of fact, one does not actually know how smart one is being without already having been willing to work hard. It takes work to make real confirmations of what we think we know, and if we are not willing to put in any work, what is going to push us over the obstacles which must be cleared in order to be free from comfortable cognitive traps such as groupthink? Seen in that light, it would be very silly for someone to disagree that working hard is important because it's very literally necessary in order to be able to have the result of being smart. It's easy for the ignorant to ignore but when they say "lazy" they generally mean something closer to "don't want to know" something or "not courageous enough to ask" because it actually takes more work and is thus harder to change for the better through learning things in actuality than it is not to change for the better. As if they desire it to be true that they can succeed by only having to use their brain, it may be a form of greed.