What the tortoise knows

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2024 Oct 18

That B schools don’t tell

Patience is one of the most under rated virtues. It is free but its absence can be costly.

Many a things:

Work best slow
- Eating and digestion
- Finding your calling

Need to be left undisturbed
- Plaster cast on fractures
- Investments and compounding

Fructify as per their natural time
- Concrete needs 48 hours to dry and 48 days to strengthen
- Chinese bamboo seed takes 5 years to break through soil

Patience is the unfolding of nature at its own pace. External force cannot hasten it. The smaller gear moves faster than the bigger one. Each to its own pace.

A hare lives for 4 years and the tortoise 100 years. The tortoise probably heard the story of the hare winning from the next 25 generations of the hare. A perspective that start-ups, corporates on steroids, ambitious folks and 10X growth proponents may well apply. The pyramids are still here after thousands of years while most Fortune 500 companies disappear after two decades.

Ask the tortoise or your grandparents.

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