Ankur-da,
Thats a good story.
Umesh
Ankur Bora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear reader, I happened to find the
following newer story of the hare and tortoise. I wish you would read till the
finish. I am also posing a question at the end, I will be delighted if you
respond.
Once upon a time a tortoise and a hare had an argument about who was faster.
They decided to settle the argument with a race. They agreed on a route and
started off the race. The hare shot ahead and ran briskly for some time. Then
seeing that he was far ahead of the tortoise, he thought he'd sit under a tree
for some time and relax before continuing the race. He sat under the tree and
soon fell asleep. The tortoise plodding on overtook him and soon finished the
race, emerging as the winner.
The hare was disappointed at losing the race. He realized that he'd lost the
race only because he had been overconfident, careless and lax. If he had not
taken things for granted, there's no way the tortoise could have beaten him. So
he challenged the tortoise to another race. The tortoise agreed. This time, the
hare went all out and ran without stopping from start to finish. He won by
several miles.
The tortoise did some thinking this time, and realized that there's no way he
can beat the hare in a race the way it was currently formatted. He thought for
a while, and then challenged the hare to another race, but on a slightly
different route. The hare agreed. They started off. In keeping with his
self-made commitment to be consistently fast, the hare took off and ran at top
speed until he came to a broad river. The finishing line was a couple of
kilometers on the other side of the river. The hare sat there wondering what to
do. In the meantime the tortoise trundled along, got into the river, swam to
the opposite bank, continued walking and finished the race winning.
The hare and the tortoise, by this time, had become pretty good friends and
they did some thinking together. Both realized that the last race could have
been run much better. So they decided to do the last race again, but to run as
a team this time. They started off, and this time the hare carried the tortoise
till the riverbank. There, the tortoise took over and swam across with the hare
on his back. On the opposite bank, the hare again carried the tortoise and they
reached the finishing line together. Finally both became winners and they both
felt a greater sense of satisfaction than they'd felt earlier.
Success is not about I or me better than you, Success is about we making a
better tomorrow than we are today. Dear reader, what do you think about this,
dont you agree with me?
Ankur
Austin , Texas
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Umesh Sharma
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Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005
http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info)
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)
www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used )
http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
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