We have all read/heard the story of tortoise and the hare (For those who haven't click here). Tortoise wins the race defeating the hare and moral of the story is - Slow and steady wins the race.
It might make sense, but I do not agree with it. Let me put some questions here, Will you say the tortoise won? and more importantly did he win because of slow and steady speed? Would the tortoise have won, if the hare did not underestimated him? Would the tortoise have won, if the hare did not slept? The answer to all these questions is NO (or MAYBE, but definitely not yes).
The way I see it, tortoise never won the race, it was the hare who lost it. Had he not underestimated the tortoise and not slept before completing the race, who knows what the outcome would have been. But he was complacent and underestimated tortoise. He slept before completing the race assuming tortoise will never make it.
So what is the point of this argument? If you look at it from the hare's perspective and try to analyze the result or cause of it, your moral/conclusion will change. The hare lost because he was complacent, underestimated the potential of tortoise and slept before completing the race. So the moral of the story (according to me) is - Don't be complacent and underestimate your competitor and Don't loose the focus until you have achieved your goal.
Slow and steady will surely win, if and only if your competitor is sleeping. Which is highly unlikely, at least in the world where I live ;)
