Chewing Chicken

Recently a 20 year old American man made a request, that in the preparation of his food, that the chicken be shredded, as chicken in bite-size pieces took too much time and effort to chew. There was nothing wrong with his ability to chew; it just took too long.

Certainly the young man should be commended for wanting to be efficient with the use of his time and energy. He has learned that time is an important commodity and that once gone, it can never be retrieved. And in considering the amount of time it takes to chew chicken, less of that means more time to get things done that are more important than chewing chicken. Adding to time efficiency a number of other success principles, the young man may be destined to achieve much more than the average person. Or at least more that the average chicken-chewing man who is not aware of how precious time is.

One must keep in mind, on the other hand, that the time saved not chewing chicken should be used to produce more than chicken-chewing would produce. That is, the same amount of time and effort would need to be made during the extra time it would normally take to chew chicken, to make the non-chicken-chewing time more productive. Otherwise, the time saved not chewing chicken would be wasted. Chicken chewers around the world should be warned – don’t waste time chewing chicken!

Efficiency of time management is an important principle in the achievement of success.

As Benjamin Franklin said, “A work to the wise is sufficient.”