The Way of the Solitary Cyclist, #5

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening the axe.
Traditional saying

Learn the skills necessary to do your job. Or to do your hobby.

If you're barely Microsoft Word literate, for example, there are a lot of features you probably don't know how to do. You might spend three hours creating a Table of Contents of a report you were writing, for example, when, if you'd put in the proper codes as you did your writing, which would have taken no time at all, the program will create the table of contents for you within seconds.

In the same way, if you're trying to lose weight, you need to hone your weight loss skills - build your willpower muscles, your knowledge of food muscles, and so on.

Knowledge is everything.