“Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.”
— Henry Ford
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When you do something yourself, you benefit from it more than if someone else did it for you. For example, if you cut your own firewood, you not only get exercise and fresh air, but you also have wood to keep you warm later. This can apply to many parts of life. Imagine you are baking a cake. If you buy a cake, you just get to eat it. But if you bake it yourself, you enjoy making it and then get to eat it too. Doing tasks on your own teaches you skills, gives you satisfaction, and you get the end result, so you gain multiple rewards from one effort.
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