Psychology says the people who quietly build enormous success aren’t the ones working the hardest, they’re the ones who learned early to protect their energy from the small daily leaks most adults never notice

Success, on the whole, is associated with hard work, and those who succeed in becoming leaders will have to work harder than others in order to produce better results. Nevertheless, recent studies in psychology suggest that effort is not the only determinant of performance. Effort may not determine the level of performance achieved; what counts is the amount of energy left for decision-making.

Depriving oneself of sleep, interrupting oneself constantly, using technology, stressing oneself out, and failing to recover are just a few ways in which energy is depleted from the very pool of energy required for good decisions and control.