At a truck suspension shop, they’d do a year-end tally to count all the different kinds of screws.

One

By

One

It would take daaaaays!

Can you imagine the time-sucking, soul-crushing agony?

A new employee joined the team.

He was assigned the task of counting the screws.

The problem was, he was too lazy. He couldn’t be bothered with counting the screws, one by one.

So he came up with an idea.

He weighed an individual screw.
Then weighed the bin full of screws.
Then divided the weight of the bin by the weight of just one screw.

BAM!

He got the total number of screws.

The job went from taking days… to be done in a couple of minutes.

The best way to do anything… is to be lazy.

Be lazy like the car mechanic.

Build a system!

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