The Tortoise and the Hare.

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It seemed like the hare was going to win the race, but he got tired and fell asleep while the tortoise kept moving and the tortoise won.

I am the tortoise. Very slow, but I get there while others don't because they think they can rush everything, and they get overconfident and screw the job up.

I'm neither.
A tortoise who will lose because of it's slowness, and an hare that did won easily and effortlessly.

Or either.
A tortoise who won by being slow, steady and consistent, and an hare that did lose by being impulsive, rushed, or overdone by complacency.

Because conditions, because situations, because nuances that people doesn't think over.
And instead either thinks an excuse when I fail or an expression of humbleness if I succeed.

Did not matter. Nothing to me is consistent.
Even something so simple as this doesn't resonate with me.

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You're right, analogies don't stand up well to close scrutiny, and like the Zen people say, the converse of a statement always contains truth.

The weakness of the parable is that there isn't always time to plod slowly and thoroughly through every task, and not all hares are complacent enough to blow their success.

And I can move damn quick when I know it's important.

But I was feeling poetical when I posted before, and there's merit in that too. I'm often very objective and nuanced, but sometimes I just think "what the hell," and let fly with a rather inaccurate but colourful soundbite that somehow expresses something good that can't be aired any other way. It's risky, but it's fun. Trump does it all the time, but that's taking a good thing way too far, which is why the wise liken him to a drunk on a park bench.

There was an old Looney Tunes ep about this. Cecil Turtle seemed very slow mentally but he won because he cheated & had his tortoise lookalike friends line the route. As soon as Bugs passed one he saw another tortoise in front of him I found it on YouTube in 3 parts & since I like you guys I'll post all 3 parts as well as their Re-Race vid I found. In the Re-Race Cecil had a jet engine inside his shell

this tortoise found that the whole GD world left him behind.

Some adaptions call the story "The Turtle and the Rabbit" because apparently they think kids are too dumb to know the differences between turtles and tortoises and rabbits and hares.

But I know the differences. Tortoises are basically land turtles that don't swim in water. They don't have webbed feet like fresh water turtles have, and their shells are much rounder and dome-shaped. Hares have babies that are not born blind and helpless like baby rabbits, and they are usually bigger and have longer ears and bigger feet than rabbits have.

They reduce everything to media references these days. Those "I don't watch television" types are dangerous freethinkers so it's important to give the sheeple a leg up and put them at a disadvantage or society as we know it will collapse and the rich might get poorer.

So the turtle mocks the hare and the hare pots the turtle?

That seems a bit dissonant.