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A lessson from the timber chopper


Once there were a group of man - a young hot-blood guy
and a big number of old folks, doing timber job in a jungle
(chopping down trees).

This young chap is very hard working ... he continued to work
through the break time and complained that those old folks
were wasting times ....having to break few times a day to
drink and chat.

As times goes by ... this young guy notice that even though
he work thru break time and hardly take rest .... those old
folks are just chopping the same amount of tree as he did
and sometimes did more than he did .... as if  those old folks
work through  the break time as he did.

So he decided to work harder the next day ....unfortunately
the results are even worse !

One day .... one of the old folk invited him for a drink during
their break time. That young guy refused and said he has
no extra time to spent !
Then the old man smile to him and said, " It was just a waste
of effort to keep chopping tree without re-sharpening your
knife.  Sooner or later you will give up or you have too much
energy to spend and exhausted later."

Suddenly the young man realised that actually during break
time while those old folds having a chat..... they also
re-sharpening their knife at the same time ! And that's how
they can chop faster than him and spent less time !

The old man said, " What we need is efficiency - making use
of our skill and ability intelligently. Only then we can have more
times to do other things. Otherwise you will keeps saying .....
I have no time ! "

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