Hard Work - Poem
- Greg Luti
- Jan 2
- 2 min read
Updated: May 29
Greg Luti’s poem “Hard Work” explores the quiet exhaustion and unglamorous truth behind real effort, sacrifice, and grinding through days when motivation is completely gone.
Hard work is a lie.
It is a lie told to you by above average individuals when they are asked why they are successful.
The geniuses don’t claim that they needed to work hard to be great.
No. They have natural talent. They don’t need to work hard.
There is a difference between working hard to improve and working hard to maintain.
Geniuses work hard so that they can still be in the field, and knowledge of their craft
To make their muscle memory awake and ready to go.
Everyone else works hard so that they can improve their skill, the skill that the genius has
