But researchers conveniently do not consider what it takes to apply oneself so assiduously and, in particular, why one would want to work so hard if one was not progressing rapidly to the head of the class.
Help someone who wants help and is willing to apply oneself.
Even though more and more means of learning become available, finding the time to apply oneself is increasingly difficult when less demanding activities beg.
And there are indications that capacity discipline, which has so fundamentally reshaped the domestic market, is now being applied more assiduously to international markets.
He soon realised that the Pakistani people had an appetite for the ghazal, so he applied himself assiduously to the study of Urdu, particularly Urdu poetry.
The England captaincy has become a public relations exercise and, while Beckham applied himself assiduously to the PR bit, about the only time he showed genuine leadership on the field was when he almost singlehandedly dragged England to automatic qualification for the last World Cup in the 2-2 drawithth Greece at Old Trafford.
Mr Straw told the BBC: "As I've made repeatedly clear, I applied myself assiduously to the legal obligations on me, which were above all to ensure that people's human rights were observed and that any action I took was within the law.
But in California, the rules on the property tax exemption for nonprofits evolved out of a 1944 ballot initiative, so they are more grounded than in many other places — if not necessarily applied assiduously by county assessors.
Knowing they were being monitored and tracked in public, municipal workers also applied themselves more assiduously to their tasks.
It was never a label that could possibly have been applied to oneself.
Think about which concepts you would like to apply most assiduously to your negotiations and actively practice them, both at work and at home.
