#Tortoise and the Hare

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Tough crowd. 🤷🏻‍♂️

In other news, thanks so much to all of you who’ve already grabbed one of the plushies, you rule! 🙌

I also got word from Pyjama Films that we’ve received a lot of applications for the production designer post, so thank you for spreading the news!

More news to follow. 🤘

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Bugs Bunny: Tortoise Beats Hare Director: Tex Avery | Studio: Warner Bros. | USA, 1941

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Buddygator

[wtf-a-psychoanalysis]

Hot take

MM Leo closer to dating Yuichi than Rise leo

Only bc skull island implies that Mike ( who is voiced by Darren Barnet, who voices Usagi) has a thing for Charlie (who is voiced by Nicholas Cantu, who voices MM Leo)

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Carrots! 🥕

[misforgotten2]

The only real way the tortoise could beat the hare was by beating him into near unconsciousness with his walking stick.

1928

[hestiaoflindon]

Why the Tortoise and the Hare is stupid

I think I finally learned the lesson of the Tortoise and the Hare from saving for Onewheels with Austin. He could save more of his paycheck than I, so he built up what he needed (or close to it) very quickly, saw me far behind him and started spending money because he thought he’d catch back up by the time I got close. 

Instead, I have a Onewheel sitting here in its box, waiting for him to save his next 3 paychecks so he can order his and we can open them together.

That might sound snarky; but I’m really very grateful for this lesson. I learned two things:

1. The tortoise method works when you only know how much you can spend within a given period - when you know your limitations.

Money, effort, energy… the tortoise moves inexorably forward by consistently spending the same amount of effort every day/unit of time. Being consistent like that allows you to predict when you’ll reach the finish line. I could save $x/mo, so I’d have the total by May - which I did.

2. The hare loses only when there is a tortoise to compare to.

By nature, the hare is much faster than the tortoise. By rights, he should win in minutes to the tortoise’s days. Asking a hare to match the pace of the tortoise is asking him to give up what makes him unique: his speed.

Comparing the hare to the tortoise is detrimental in 2 ways:

When the hare looks back and compares himself to the tortoise’s progress, he sees he is already so far ahead that he can stop to rest altogether and still most likely win. (The caution of the fable is that the hare gets distracted/falls asleep, etc; which is certainly a failing of hares.) When the hare compares himself to the tortoise, he sees his own superiority in the contest in which they are engaged - speed - and stops challenging himself.

The second way comparing hares to tortoises is bad is from the spectator’s perspective. The tortoise is moving at a consistent and predictable rate of speed, which appears “safer” because it’s predictable. Spectators can wager on when he will reach the finish because it’s easy to predict. The hare, when compared externally to the tortoise, seems unpredictable, erratic, and possibly even “unmotivated;” simply because his behavior doesn’t have the same consistent incremental progress. He often goes backwards or sideways instead of forwards. He is “not a good bet” - when compared to a tortoise.

But don’t we have another fable warning us against comparing apples to oranges?? How it is not a fair contest to compare things with drastically different characteristics?? Have you ever seen hares in a race against EACH OTHER?

In both of the above comparisons - both from the hare’s perspective and that of the spectators’ - the hare looks bad because he is being compared to a completely different sort of creature. What if he were comparing himself to another hare? 

What if he looked back and saw a whole pack of hares hard on his heels and realized that they had just as much capability to win as he did and he pushed himself harder and won with the sheer triumph of knowing he actually reached his limits and conquered anyway?

What if the spectators saw a field of hares all bouncing around every which way and had no idea who to bet on because no one seemed like a “safe bet” so they stopped watching the hare race and went to bother the tortoises instead, leaving the hares alone to do things the way that worked for them?

So my lessons from this fable and my experience of actually being the tortoise for once are these:

1. Don’t compare yourself to tortoises. 

Tricky to know who is a tortoise, and it depends on the situation you’re in of course. And you can’t stop spectators from comparing you to tortoises, but you can decide to stop listening to the spectators entirely. 

2. Find other hares to race against, or don’t race publicly

I’ve found in the world of entrepreneurship, this concept of the tortoise and the hare is almost a religious precept. They all want to be the tortoise that gets VC funding because they’re such a “safe bet.” The problem is that entrepreneurs are, by nature, hares. Our imagination is boundless and our energy is variable. We get easily distracted by new and equally exciting ideas, and think that we have enough natural capability to add the new thing without dropping the old thing (we do: the problem is the variable energy bit).

If you’re involved in the online entrepreneurial world, beware of hares masquerading as tortoises. They like to rewrite their stories and polish them up to smooth out the pacing so they seem consistent and predictable.

Look for people who are honest about how they got to where they are. I think of Tim Ferriss admitting in one of his books that the timeframe he was accomplishing one of the big things everyone knows him for was the same time he hit snooze 50 times, couldn’t make himself take a shower, and drowned his worries in drink every night (a major executive dysfunction episode if I’ve ever heard one). Yet he still accomplished that big thing. 

3. Hares can guarantee their win if they commit to the tortoise’s minimum effort strategy, knowing that they can go much further if they keep their momentum

We shouldn’t try to shackle ourselves to a tortoise’s pace - every kid bored to tears in school knows this. But we can learn from the tortoise that you can guarantee some kind of movement if you commit to your minimum energetic capability. 

The hard part here is ego. 

Because our energy is more variable than tortoises', our minimum energetic capability is actually far less. Let’s say a tortoise can consistently output 30 units a day and not feel tired. This is their optimum pace and where they actually feel accomplished and productive. They never worry about outputting more than 30 units, and they know that they can always do 30.

But as a hare - since our energy fluctuates far more - at the low point of our energy wave, we can only reasonably commit to outputting 1 unit. We hares don’t like that because the tortoise is putting out 30 and we know we’re more capable than him. We think, “if I only put out 1 unit a day to his 30, he’ll win for sure and I should be the one winning.” 

This is true that the tortoise would win  - if it were also true that the hare would only ever output 1 unit a day. 

But the hare’s energy wave goes much, much higher than the tortoise’s, and at the high point, the hare can output 300 units without breaking a sweat. Those of us hares who are optimistic see that we are capable of 10x the tortoise’s work and think we’ll win for sure because of course we’ll always generate 300 units, forgetting completely that we ride an energy wave and that the low point is inevitable. 

So when the low energy point comes and we see the tortoise’s 30 units way ahead of our measly 1, we give up in red-hot frustration at having failed our nature AGAIN because there’s no way we can catch the tortoise with only 1 unit at a time, forgetting completely that we ride an energy wave and that the high point is inevitable. 

BUT if the hare can commit and promise and put enough sticky notes and reminders and recite enough litanies to remind themselves that the high point is inevitable and that no momentum is wasted, and can bring themselves to be humble enough to do their wimpy little 1 unit even though it doesn’t look like nearly enough and they know they’re capable of far more (*cough* on the high point *cough*), they’ll keep the most important thing of all: momentum. 

Momentum - or the lack thereof - is what lost the race for the OG hare in our fable. He stopped completely with the finish line in sight and fell asleep. He thought he had won already so he didn’t bother finishing the last few feet.

I think the point of this fable is to caution against losing momentum, but everyone has taken it to mean that you’re supposed to be super consistent - which is impossible for hares and ends up just painting them as villainous lazy ne’er-do-wells who can’t be counted on to finish anything. 

Hares CAN at least keep their momentum. If they commit to doing their 1 unit when they feel the most crappy and useless, they’ll still be on the same track when the high point comes and they’ll blaze past the tortoise 10 to 1. But if they give up in frustration because “this always happens” at the low point, stop completely, and switch directions to blaze off on when the high point comes, they will compare themselves to tortoises who can “stick with things” and make themselves out to be lazy ne’er-do-wells with some kind of fatal character flaw… when the only question is that of direction and momentum, not of consistency.

[the-cricket-chirps]

Albrecht Dürer, A Young Hare, 1502

Herbert Bayer, "In the meantime while the tortoise came jogging on with a slow but continued pace, and the hare out of too great a security and confidence of victory overslept herself, the tortoise arrived at the end of the race first." --Aesop, 550 B.C., ca. 1962

[disneyweirdness]

From The Tortoise and the Hare #1

[thefoodwiththedood]

Project for my Storyboarding class, in which we were tasked with working in a group to adapt a classic fairy tale into a storyboard. My group chose to do "The Tortoise and The Hare" meets "Initial D", which ended up being pretty fun!

Boards made in Adobe Illustrator

Full storyboards below the cut:

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The Trickster Brothers Three

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old stuff from free draw cause i used to use roblox a lot

a) don't question the peekaboo demon with thighs

b) latter two images are of @vesparazratte 's silly both burning alive and as aubrey omori real

i have some newer ones i made today two

latter image is of me n my girlfriend @j1nxth3cl0wn in the pizza tower ice /lh i get to be noise :] kat is calling pick up phone so to speak

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[mysteriousmysticc]

"Tortoise and the Hare" written by @mysteriousmysticc

fast and furiously I have acted

slowly but surely I haven't reacted

slowly but surely I hadn't expected

fast and furiously I am affected

[chanshoesunite]

Hare is cooking something up for you, guys. You can thank me for inspiring her ;)

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Banana Friday!