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Two men were given the task to provide water for two small villages. There was a river that was not too far from the villages from which they were to get that water. The first man began immediately to fill up his two buckets with water and to carry them back and forth from the river to his village. He worked very hard and diligently and did not let anyone else help him carry the water because the people were not yet "ready". (He was actually insecure and needed to be needed.) The second man did not carry a single bucket. Instead he began making drawings and talking to other people who lived in the village and even in villages far, far away. The first man saw him sitting behind a desk writing and could not understand how he could be so lazy, pushing a pencil while he was working for his village. The second man went away and came back with pipes. With the help of the villagers he placed the tubes and pipes in places where the villagers could get the water themselves. He even ta