It’s Too Difficult
There is a guiding principle which helps me solve sticky little problems almost on a daily basis.
It shouldn’t be that hard.
Let me explain with a quick story about Chain Saws beginning with a short history taken from Popular Mechanics Magazine by Amanda Green.
1926: Andreas Stihl patents two-person saws: a 116-pound electric model, and a 139-pound gas one in 1929. U.S. troops bring them home from Europe in 1941 to be imitated. 1945: Chain saws before the end of World War II are heavy, often wheeled, two-person devices. The development of aluminum alloys and forged steel parts leads to one-person saws. 1949: McCulloch Motors Corp. debuts the world's lightest chain saw, the 25-pound Model 3-25.
The Story:
This fellow is looking to buy a saw to cut down some trees in his back yard. The dealer tells him, this chainsaw will cut a hundred cords of wood for you in one day."
So, the man takes the chainsaw home and begins working on the trees. After cutting for several hours and only cutting two trees, he decides to quit. He thinks there is something wrong with the chainsaw. The man is convinced this is a bad saw. The very next day the man brings the saw back to the dealer and explains the problem. The dealer, baffled by the man's claim, removes the chainsaw from the case. The dealer says, "Hmm, it looks fine."
Then the dealer starts the chainsaw, to which the man responds, "What's that noise?
I love cooking with my modern electric pressure cooker. We lost a small gasket and it wouldn’t make a pressure seal. I received the replacement part in the mail a few days later then spent more than an hour trying to install one small silicone gasket on a tiny aluminum part. Then I said to myself “It shouldn’t be this hard.” I turned the part over and installed it in about 10 seconds.
I needed to change a sanding drum in the shop but couldn’t get the nut off the shaft. “It shouldn’t be this hard” kept going through my mind. The nut had left hand threads. My recommendation for when something seems very difficult is to stop what you have been trying for a moment, take a step back and examine the alternatives. “It shouldn’t be that hard”. Other folks would give up too easily if it actually were that hard. You must be doing something wrong. There is almost always an easier way with mechanical things. Caution: This does not apply to life, marriage and children. It actually is that hard and there usually isn’t an easier way.
This principle “It Shouldn’t Be That Hard” is what drives many of my inventions. They are ways to make difficult tasks easier. Remember that wherever you go, there you are.
Here is my inspiration for this message:
Mark 4:11 KJV And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:
Ps 27:11 MSG Point me down your highway, God; direct me along a well-lighted street; show my enemies whose side you're on.
Eph 5:32 MSG This is a huge mystery, and I don't pretend to understand it all. What is clearest to me is the way Christ treats the church.
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