Performance vs Effort

Present day world is driven by performance based reward. So, it becomes quite important to understand what is the difference between performance and effort. It is very common that putting effort is equivalent as to perform. I will write a famous quote, by an author I do not know the name, "Think before you act and don't think after it is done".

The context here is about performance and effort. Thinking can be compared to effort and performance can be compared to action. If one acts out of impulse and does a lot of thinking and acts indecisively is one who has put a lot of effort but did not perform. On the other hand a person who puts same amount of effort as the one who did not perform but did not act until the person was confident of the consequences of the action will perform better. So, performance requires effort but in proper sequence.