Yet if you read it, you find there's no real difficulty in making out what his arguments are: political activism has not been the best path to success for American ethnic groups; "discrimination" is not the catch-all explanation for why some groups earn higher incomes or have better educational outcomes than others -- perfectly understandable arguments like that.
For my students, it may as well have been written in Chinese.
You would not want to see the papers they wrote on it.
Even if they had understood the book, their writing was atrocious. They had no idea how to assemble an argument, organize a paper, or even write a coherent -- much less elegant -- sentence.
And if they were disappointed with their grade, I would hear: "But I spent so much time on this!"
Since when does "spending time" entitle you to anything?
It certainly doesn't in business.
You can't tell your potential customers, "But I worked so hard on this thing you don't want!"
Working hard isn't the secret. That alone gets you nowhere.
You have to work smart. Working smart cuts down how much working hard you have to do.
Working smart, in this case, means learning from an old master and not trying to reinvent the wheel.
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