"Take time to think"
It was the annual lumberjack competition
and the final was between an older,
experienced lumberjack and a younger,
stronger lumberjack.
The rule of the competition was quite
simply who could fell the most trees
in a day was the winner.
The younger lumberjack was full of enthusiasm
and went off into the wood
and set to work straight away.
He worked all through the day
and all through the night.
As he worked, he could hear
the older lumberjack working in another part
of the forest and he felt more
and more confident with every tree
he felled that he would win.
At regular intervals throughout the day,
the noise of trees being felled coming
from the other part of the forest would stop.
The younger lumberjack took heart from this,
knowing that this meant the
older lumberjack was taking a rest,
whereas he could use his superior youth
and strength and stamina to keep going.
At the end of the competition,
the younger lumberjack felt
confident he had won.
He looked in front of him at the piles
of felled trees that were
the result of his superhuman effort.
At the medal ceremony,
he stood on the podium confident
and expecting to be awarded
the prize of champion lumberjack.
Next to him stood the older lumberjack
who looked surprisingly less
exhausted than he felt.
When the results were read out,
he was devastated to hear that
the older lumberjack had chopped
down significantly more trees than he had.
He turned to the older lumber jack
and said: “How can this be?
I heard you take a rest every hour
and I worked continuously through the night.
What's more, I am stronger
and fitter than you old man”.
The older lumberjack turned
to him and said:
“Every hour,
I took a break to rest
and sharpen my saw”
"Are you sharpening your saw?"
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