Readers may recall in Part 1 of Work Ethic VS Brains, Nickaz Commercial Interior Director, Kazan Hadden reflected on his own childhood and upbringing and asked the question "In business, what's more important...Work Ethic or Brains"? Here is Part 2 of his story. 

Another big thing with me and something I feel is a huge part of the ingredient of success is thinking.

I have always been a big thinker. For as far back as I can remember I always had internal conversations with myself. I was always thinking, day and night. And as I got older all that happened was I thought more, which makes sense right?

As you think, your mind grows, so you constantly grow your capacity to take on more. I don't think this ever stops. So the more you think the more you/ your mind/ brain can handle and you just keep growing or keep getting smarter I guess?

The same thing happens with work ethic.  If you push yourself close to your limit you start to learn your capabilities right? So next time you push yourself you already know you are capable of reaching, "say A" so if you try hard again next time you should be able to get back to “A” easily so on you go to “B”. The great thing is the alphabet is pretty long so you could probably spend a life time trying to reach your true work ethic potential.

This is how the Life of Nickaz started, and I think in the early days Nickaz survived mostly on pure work ethic. 

So how has Nickaz Been so successful with a multi-million dollar turn over year after year without someone with a good education driving it?

For me the BRAINS part came naturally through "hidden learning" and in the form of my ability to tap into my internal feelings and dialogue about things like "How did I feel", decision making (which most people struggle with), a strong belief in right from wrong, ethics, perfection, doing the right thing, making myself learn what I needed to know, etc.

Maybe all that is street smarts? For me HERE IS THE ANSWER: 

I believe you can be really smart, a Rhodes scholar, have a university degree - the works, but if you don't have work ethic, it's like driving the best car and then running out of petrol. YOU JUST WONT GET TO WHERE YOU WANT TO GO.

I think any exceptions to this are few and far between. 

In my working life I’ve met some extremely smart people - much smarter than me - some very successful, some not, some of them I’ve employed and some I still do.

All the successful people I’ve met though, no matter how smart, have all been extremely hard working and all the employees that have succeeded with me all have first and foremost had great work ethic.

You need to be smart as well, and the more of the two you combine the better the outcome should be. 

However, I'm convinced that success is a by-product of hard work, perseverance, consistency, being relentless in reaching your goals and maintaining or exceeding your standards.

I’ve always lived by this rule.

If everything is going wrong no matter how bad the situation, there is one thing nobody can take from you....THAT’S YOUR HEART.

Author

Kazan Hadden

Director

0416 024 369

kazan@nickaz.com.au

Board Member, The John Maclean Foundation, jmf.com.au

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