Shannon's Journal Discussion

[apollolux]

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.

I think we're saying the same thing in slightly different language; the tortoise applied steady, consistent application towards finishing the race while the hare was inconsistent and chose to nap, losing the race.

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.

Agreed, except for the very last sentence; I believe the over-simplification wasn't done by Aesop, it's done by elementary school teachers who were and continue to be educated with the wrong moral from that story.