No effort, no result (No pain, no gain)

Effort is more important since no effort, no result. I admit that both of them are tantamount. Even so, I always held a belief that effort weighs heavier than result. Before we go in detail I’d like to justify this idea.

 I’d use my personal accolade of the recent effort award as an example. My initial goal was to maintain an A- or above grades to achieve a better academic result to justify my idea that I am putting in a serious amount of work and is giving my all to the class so that I can achieve the result I want. At the end of the day the result wasn’t reached, but I won the academic effort award for giving my all. Personally, I believe that as long as my effort is seen, I’m satisfied already, and that people will take effort into account. It doesn’t matter about the result, what matters is the process and what it can teach you, as well as teaching others that hard work does earn appreciation. 

Without effort, you don’t get result. If you do get result and don’t put in effort to it, would you morally feel comfortable knowing that you took things for granted and shortcut your process and hard work for the sake of earning something that you never even worked for? Just take an example from the book “The Taste of Apples”, within the story there is a chapter about “Drowning of an old cat” which is related to effort and result.

Uncle Ah-Sheung seeks to maintain tradition against an outside-Urban population’s proposal of building a swimming pool next to their sacred Dragon Eye Well. In the end, he failed, but throughout the grinding process, he galvanised the whole local rural population into protests and clearly voiced his discontent throughout the chapter of trying to convince the urban population and their political officials  to stop  the construction for the sake of maintaining the old traditional peace of the Well. He failed, but it demonstrated his work ethic and his determination to try achieve the results. At the end of the day, no one said anything about him standing idly by the side watching this happen. He probably earned the town’s respect for fighting for a strong belief.

The quote within “Old Uncle, I truly admire your speaking ability” shows an outside view of Uncle Ah-Sheung and his efforts to raise awareness.

It’s obvious that effort doesn’t always wield the desired result. However, do you think just getting the result would be more important than the process of getting the result? Take these two athletes for example, Kobe Bryant obviously didn’t have the “G.O.A.T” career, so did Derek Jeter. However, would they have been anywhere close had they not put in the effort behind the stage? It’s up to you to decide now… One last thing, Kobe would’ve been air-balling shots and Jeter getting struck out at the D League had they not gave it their all for the games.