00:00Once upon a time, a man appeared in a king's court and claimed that he could thread a black needle
00:07with black thread
00:08in complete darkness while blindfolded and repeated 500 times without missing.
00:16The king found this impossible but allowed him to prove it.
00:21The man blindfolded himself and successfully threaded the needle hundreds of times.
00:27The king was amazed and pleased.
00:30The next day, the king rewarded him with 10,000 gold coins.
00:35But as the man was leaving happily, the king ordered soldiers to whip him 10 times.
00:42Shocked, the man cried,
00:45Your majesty, you just rewarded me. Why punish me now?
00:49The king replied,
00:51You were rewarded for your incredible skill,
00:54but you are punished because you wasted your life mastering something completely useless.
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