Tag
#Fables
10 posts
- Character
The Scorpion and the Frog: When Someone Tells You What They Are
A story about trusting a promise that goes against a person's nature, and who is really responsible when it breaks.
- Character
The Three Sieves: The Question to Ask Before You Repeat It
A story about gossip, and the three plain tests that almost nothing you are about to repeat can survive.
- Character
King Canute and the Tide: The Man Who Was Proving the Opposite
A story about flattery, and what a king did to show his court exactly how small he was.
- Character
The Two Wolves: What You Feed Is What Wins
A story about the fight inside a person, and the uncomfortable question of which side you have quietly been supplying.
- Mind
The Empty Boat: Where Your Anger Actually Comes From
A story about anger, and how much of it turns out to depend on believing that somebody meant it.
- Mind
The Blind Men and the Elephant: On Being Right About Your Part
A story about partial knowledge, and how an honest report of what you touched can leave you completely wrong.
- Mind
The Boiling Frog: Why Slow Disasters Are the Ones We Sit Through
A story about slow change, and why the trouble that arrives gradually is the kind we are worst at noticing.
- Purpose
The Sharpened Axe: Why the Hardest Workers Often Get the Least Done
A story about effort, and why working harder stops working when you never stop to sharpen the tool.
- Relationships
The Monk Who Put Her Down: Who Is Still Carrying It
A story about resentment, and why the person holding onto it usually pays far more than the person who caused it.
- Mind
The Farmer Who Said Maybe: On Calling Things Good or Bad Too Early
A story about how quickly we call things good or bad, and how often the next turn of events proves us wrong.
