sprinting.without.initiative.stacks.hurdles
Consider a race where the resourceful, brainstorming type walks calmly at the starter’s gun, whilst others bolt out of the blocks. The sprinter’s strategy is to get a headstart: (1) good education, (2)the right networks, (3) a good job — and then to maintain his lead against a tide where 1) tends to stop after compulsory schooling and 2) and 3) consume lots of energy.
This is, of course, the story of the hare and the tortoise, only this swishism adapts the tale slightly to endow our hero in a half-shell with forethought and an innovative spirit. In the children’s story, the Hare gets complacent, takes a nap and the tortoise just factors his discipline over time. In reality I don’t think either are necessarily true, although hares do waste a lot of time and energy stacking hurdles that they can’t dont wont to jump over, they aren’t all complacent; equally, few tortoises win without initative.
