rare NON-stolen motivational quotes #3
okay, this one’s gonna be longer than usual.
our family owns a summerhouse in a small town. we don’t have electric heating, so most of the summer is spent cutting up wood logs so they can be stored properly.
to make this easier, we have an wood splitting machine. everyone knows how to use it. hold down 2 levers to make the blade go down, the stronger you push them down, the faster it moves. whenever my brother, my dad, or my uncle are operating it, it always dies at least once while they’re cutting. this happens to everyone.
except for me.
why?
it’s simple, yet noone seems to understand.
when you’re pushing down on a piece of a log, you can hear the woodsplitter getting stressed, as it’s using a lot of pressure. despite these sounds, noone stops, if anything they try to pull harder till it dies.
meanwhile me, as soon as I hear this overstress, I pause.
okay, this one’s gonna be longer than usual.
our family owns a summerhouse in a small town. we don’t have electric heating, so most of the summer is spent cutting up wood logs so they can be stored properly.
to make this easier, we have an wood splitting machine. everyone knows how to use it. hold down 2 levers to make the blade go down, the stronger you push them down, the faster it moves. whenever my brother, my dad, or my uncle are operating it, it always dies at least once while they’re cutting. this happens to everyone.
except for me.
why?
it’s simple, yet noone seems to understand.
when you’re pushing down on a piece of a log, you can hear the woodsplitter getting stressed, as it’s using a lot of pressure. despite these sounds, noone stops, if anything they try to pull harder till it dies.
meanwhile me, as soon as I hear this overstress, I pause.
I completely stop pulling the levers. instead, I go slowly, I push the levers for a second, then I stop, then push, then stop, rinse and repeat.
it takes longer, sure, but there’s no way that a machine forcefully dying every half a minute can be good for it.
why am I talking about this?
because it shows something.
forcing pressure onto someone, even if they were “built” for it, even if they like doing it, won’t end well.
while it can end with a log split quickly, it can also end with a broken machine.
some low amount of pressure can be good, but everything has a limit before it gets overstressed.
it takes longer, sure, but there’s no way that a machine forcefully dying every half a minute can be good for it.
why am I talking about this?
because it shows something.
forcing pressure onto someone, even if they were “built” for it, even if they like doing it, won’t end well.
while it can end with a log split quickly, it can also end with a broken machine.
some low amount of pressure can be good, but everything has a limit before it gets overstressed.