A man observed a farm where wheat was growing very well. He went to the farmer and asked what he did to make the wheat grow so abundantly, and the farmer replied, “I leveled the land and added water and manure, and it’ts been growing like this since them.”
So the man went home eager to duplicate the farmer’s method, and put water and fertilizer on the field. He also began carefully sowing the seeds, but as he did, he noticed his feet stepping on the ground, and he feared that it would damage the seeds.
The man became concerned, and decided to hire four men to hold him in a chair while he sowed the seeds from the air. The new plan, however, had its own drawbacks, and the four men holding the chair ended up stepping on the ground four times as much as the man did previously by himself.
From this story I learned not to complicate things and make wrong choices when I'm on the right track. If this man hadn't hired four people to carry him, he wouldn't have had any trouble growing wheat.
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