This Is More Important Than Talent And Speed

Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore

Susie Moore

Society & Culture, Philosophy, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Life Coach, Motivational, Personal Development, Mental Health, Life Coaching, Self-help, Education

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🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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What can a 2,500-year-old fable teach us about modern success? Turns out, quite a lot. Today I'm diving into perhaps the most famous of Aesop's fables – "The Tortoise and the Hare" – and unpacking its timeless wisdom for our modern lives. 🚨 LIMITED TIME 🚨 Have you ever considered creating an online course? My dear friend Amy Porterfield's Course Confidence Bootcamp helps you make the four core decisions that will shape your course: 🎯 Topic selection 🤝 Promise creation 💰 Pricing strategy...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.
0:09.8	Well, here is a story that we all know today that I'm very excited to read to. It might be one of the most famous ASOP fables. Your kids know it. In fact, if your kids are with you today, why not play this for
0:21.5	them? It's a great one. It's extremely famous. We use this expression a lot in day-to-day life,
0:27.9	and it hails from Aesop 2,500 years ago. It is the story of the hair and the tortoise.
0:35.8	Okay, you already know what's coming, but I'm going to read it anyway, my friends,
0:39.2	and delve into the moral here. A hare one day ridiculed the short feet in slow pace of the tortoise.
0:46.3	The latter, laughing, said, though you be as swift as the wind, I will beat you in a race.
0:52.6	The hare, deeming her assertion to be simply impossible, assented
0:56.9	to the proposal, and they agreed that the fox should choose the course and fix the goal. On the
1:03.1	day appointed for the race, they started together. The tortoise never for a moment stopped, but went on
1:09.5	with a slow and steady pace straight to the end of the
1:13.3	course. The hare, trusting to his native swiftness, cared little about the race, and lying down
1:19.4	by the wayside, fell fast asleep. At last, waking up and moving as fast as he could, he saw the
1:26.3	tortoise had reached the goal and was comfortably
1:29.4	dozing after her fatigue. My friends, are you the tortoise of the hair? I have to say that I feel
1:36.6	like I am a hair in most cases. I love quick action. I love to move rapidly. But that's actually
1:43.5	not what this is about, is it? I would say in modern terms,
1:47.6	the way that I interpret this is consistency. Notice how the tortoise never stops, beats speed,
1:56.8	beats natural talent, beats natural advantages when it comes to long-term success. This is good news,
2:04.2	my friends. You don't have to be super fit, super fast, super quick, super straight to business,
2:09.7	action, action, action. No. But you do need to be steady. In fact, overestimating your confidence and underestimating others too
2:22.4	can lead to unwanted outcomes, right? Falling asleep, letting this kind of thing happen. It's so
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