In race, how fast you run determine the winner; but in life winning the race is not by running fast instead it is by running smart.
“People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it” - Howard Newton
Most people have a shallow mindset of a the believe that the faster you do things the better. I will tell you a little story about myself.
Where i was in high school, i was one of the best students in my set and i was always proud of it. I would represent my school in several competitions and i always made them proud. I'm not saying i am a guru, all i mean is that i try my best never to go below a particular benchmark . Sadly i had to repeat my last year in high school not because i failed but because my dad saw my result as a failure and demanded that i repeat the same class again.
I felt really bad but i had no choice but to do it and i learned a lot, even more than i had been taught before. So i remembered at a point in my life during my basic education when i was giving a double promotion (I'm not really sure if i was so bright as a kid to be double promoted) which i enjoyed for a while, but it later hunted me in high school.
Back to being Hasty.
Most people want to get everything quickly in life and while doing that, they miss the necessary ingredient that makes life sweet. They miss the important lesson they should have learned. This things they miss later come back to hunt them and become their worst nightmare. You know the bad thing about coming face to face with ones worst nightmare, you either overcome it or it overcomes you and this is really a tough way of learning at the peak.
Also the trend of getting to the top hastily is also in high percentage as newbies on steemit ant to hit the high rep values very fast but they miss the important things they need to know if they are going on a smooth pace. Most newbies want to get to the top without learning things like how to build a community that believe in them, How the high ranked steemians got there and their sacrifices, their writing and communication skill and so many more.
I'll end with this quote from Thucydides and i will let you do the remaining thinking.
“I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.” ― Thucydides
