Once upon a time, a lumberjack applied for work at a timber company. The pay was good, the working conditions tempting, and so the lumberjack wanted to make a good impression.
 On his first day, he reported to the foreman, who gave him an axe and assigned him a specific area in the forest.

The woodcutter enthusiastically set to work. In one day, he felled eighteen trees.
"Congratulations," said the foreman, "keep up the good work."

Spurred on by the foreman's words, the woodcutter decided to surpass his result the next day. He went to bed early.

The next morning, he got up before everyone else and went into the forest. But despite his best efforts, he didn't manage to fell more than fifteen trees. "I must be tired," he thought. And he decided to go to sleep right after sunset that day.

He woke up at dawn with the firm resolve to crack the eighteen-tree mark today. He didn't even manage half. The next day there were only seven, the day after that five, and on the last day he spent almost the entire time cutting down a second tree.

Worried about what the foreman would say, the woodcutter stood in front of him, told him what had happened and swore that he had worked until he dropped.

The foreman asked him: "When was the last time you sharpened your axe?"
"Sharpen the axe?" asked the woodcutter, "I didn't have time for that, I was too busy felling trees".

(Text adapted from Jorge Bucay's book "Come, I'll tell you a story". The image is the famous painting by Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler "The Woodcutter" (1908)

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