Shannon's Journal Discussion

[Shannon]

Slow and steady winsthe race.

No it didn't, and people commonly get this wrong. The actual moral of the fable of The Tortoise and The Hare is that the tortoise won because the hare was lazy and fell asleep before finishing the race and the tortoise kept going no matter what even though he knew the hare beat him easily on raw speed.

Incorrect. The moral of the story is that steady application to a goal - regardless of how fast it is done - will accomplish the goal, while being inconsistent in your efforts toward a goal - regardless of how quickly you could potentially achieve it - will usually not achieve the goal.

The saying "slow and steady winsthe the race" is not actually referring to the speed at which you achieve a goal, or a literal race. In this case, it refers to successfully accomplishing your goal.

Speed means nothing if you do not achieve the goal. Consistency achieves the goal better than speed, and that's the point, simplified by the fables author so much that modern humans don't understand it anymore.