If Life Is a Race, Here's Why You Keep Redlining
Why Your Need For Speed Is A Liability
Takeaway: Never risk consistency for perceived speed.
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If Life Is a Race, Here's Why You Keep Redlining
Slow and steady wins the race.
The most important insight in that statement is "steady."
The tortoise didn't win because he was slow. He won because he was consistently moving toward the finish line.
The hare easily could've won the race by a landslide. He had the ability to generate powerful momentum and move at a faster speed. However, the hare's downfall was that he was rife with distraction.
Had the hare kept steady, his speed surely would have won him the race.
Instead, he'd get going and generate a lot of momentum for himself, only to be distracted and lose that momentum. The hare was not consistent. The hare was sporadic, not steady.
If you want to reach your goals, you need to be steadily moving toward them.
If you can go fast and steady, by all means make haste. But if going fast risks being consistent, then reducing your speed—going slow and steady—is your best move.
Never risk consistency for perceived speed.
Fast and sporadic ends in a lot of effort that doesn't produce a lot of results. You might feel like you're making a lot of progress, but in reality you aren't accomplishing as much as you think.
Slow and steady produces consistent results that compound over time. If slow is the only way to achieve steady, then you'll still reach your goals faster than the distracted hare.