Business gurus are always yammering about working smarter, not harder.
It’s good advice, but it has become so cliché that it’s hard to picture what it looks like in practice. How does a freelancer actually work smarter, day in, day out?
A retired construction worker named Wally Wallington has provided some clues.
Wallington became fascinated—or should I say obsessed?—with proving that the ancient Celts could have built Stonehenge with tools available at the time.
And ancient Egyptians could have built the pyramids too: “Sorry, ancient aliens. We can do this on our own, with sweat and human ingenuity. We don’t need you.”
Wallington used levers, pivots, and counterweights to single-handedly “walk” a barn weighing 40,000 pounds (or 18,143 kilograms) across his backyard.
The guy’s hobby is odd for sure, but is freelancing really so different from the manipulation of monoliths?
Nope.
If you’re moving a big block of concrete, you need a lever and fulcrum to create a “mechanical advantage.” Otherwise, you won’t even budge the thing.