Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Story time, my friends.

Here is a snappy one, one of Aesop's fables, that I love.

I have to say, I love it when stories are depicted through animals in very kind of

short, condensed paragraphs.

It's so efficient.

It's so deep.

And I love applying these two and a half thousand year old fables to day to day life.

Once again, human nature doesn't change.

This is fascinating. So this is the story of the

ass and the grasshopper. Okay? I'm going to read it to you now and then I'm going to break down

my interpretation of the moral. An ass, right, meaning a donkey, having heard some grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted,

and desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of food they lived on

to give them such beautiful voices.

They replied, the morning dew.

The ass resolved that he would live upon only Jew and in a short time died of hunger.

Almost feels quite abrupt and sad that one, doesn't it? It's like, oh no, this poor donkey is just trying to sing beautifully.

What is the moral of the story here,

my friends? Okay, this is a good one. I've noticed this a lot in business. It's easy to imitate others. Just jump right in, don't think about it. Some might say it's foolish, to imitate others

without understanding their true nature and

their circumstances and their constitution. Yeah, so this donkey admired these beautiful voices

and thought, oh, I can achieve that by copying, you know, their diet of Jew. But what worked for him, sorry, what worked

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