You must have heard a story of “Sharpen Your Saw” in your childhood. Let’s have a quick brush up on a story.
In a small village, there were two woodcutters Ram and Shyam. Every day, they cut the wood and come back home. One day, they decided to hold a competition in order to know who is a better woodcutter. The rules were simple — whoever produces the most wood in a day wins.So, the next day with their saw they took their position and started cutting woods as the competition starts. Both were chopping away at their fastest speed and after an hour or so Shyam suddenly stopped. When Ram recognize that there is no chopping sound from the opponent’s side he thought that Shyam must be tired and he will easily win the competition and continued to cut down his trees at double the pace.
After some time, Ram heard his opponent chopping again. So both of them carried on synchronously. Ram was started to feel exhausted when the chopping from Shyam’s side stopped once again. But Ram continued on as he was feeling motivated and smelling victory, with a smile on his face.
This continued the whole day. Every hour, Shyam would stop chopping for fifteen minutes while Ram kept going relentlessly. So when the competition ended, Ram was absolutely confident that he would take the triumph.
But when the result declared, Shyam had actually cut down more wood. How did this even happen?