These are not alternatives to working harder. These are strategies to make your efforts more efficient. If you outsource some work, there is other work you can

These are not alternatives to working harder. These are strategies to make your efforts more efficient. If you outsource some work, there is other work you can be doing. Presumably your competition will be automating, outsourcing, and avoiding unnecessary work as well. People can reach many types of goals with ease. This guy is talking about goals which require beating competition to achieve. If your goal is to compete in low latency market trading, and you aren't already extremely wealthy, you aren't going to be able to be competitive and live a life of leisure at the same time.