Thomas Jefferson's Difficulty

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Thomas Jefferson wrote “determine never to be idle, it is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.” I agree with this statement as it basically says to always work and never take breaks. The reasons to always stay busy are that you can participate in more situations, you get more things finished faster, and you’ll learn more things faster.
If you always stay busy, you can participate in more situations. Getting to participate in more situations can help your strength and mental state. From my experience, since I never took a break and continued working, I participated in more situations, which helped me learn from my mistakes and be a better person. This relates to my reason by showing how it does help the mind. Like you can …show more content…

You get more free time by getting things finished faster. The experience I had is when I was working on a project. Since I stayed busy, the project was finished early and had enough time to get ready and go to the movies. As this experience relates to the reason by showing how you have more free time to do stuff. Concluding, staying busy gives more free time to do stuff.
By staying busy, you learn more things faster. Learning things faster can help you in the future. A few weeks ago, I was working with the band saw and so was a friend. Since I used the band saw more and he just sat there taking frequent breaks, I knew how to do more cuts while he had trouble using it. By not taking breaks and staying busy, I learned faster while he didn’t learn much. Seeing this, staying busy does help learn things faster.
Although, resting occasionally can help your body and mental state, it also makes you want to not finish the task at hand. Resting occasionally will make you tired and lazy. You’ll want to just sit there and not finish the project. It also costs more time to finish the project. You won’t have any free time afterwards and you’ll get used to not finishing the project. Staying busy keeps you from getting lazy and you will eventually finish the

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