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  • - [Instructor] Hello, readers.

  • Today I'd like to talk to you

  • about The Moral of the Story.

  • Which story?

  • Well, we'll get to that.

  • First, what is a moral?

  • It's a lesson, usually about

  • how you're supposed to treat other people.

  • I think that we can say that if a story has a moral,

  • it's trying to teach you how to be a good person.

  • "Aesop's Fables" are full of these.

  • There's the story of "The Tortoise and the Hare",

  • which I'll tell you very quickly, if you're unfamiliar.

  • The slow loving tortoise and the speedy hare

  • have a foot race.

  • And the hare is so sure that she'll beat the tortoise,

  • that she stops to take a nap during the race.

  • Meanwhile, the tortoise slowly and steadily

  • continues onwards, and crosses the finish line,

  • while the hare is sleeping.

  • That's confetti, as the tortoise crosses the finish line.

  • The moral of the story is,

  • slow and steady wins the race.

  • You can beat an overconfident person,

  • even if they're more talented than you,

  • if you try really hard and take it slow but steady.

  • But it's not just old stories from ancient Greece

  • that have morals.

  • The stories around us are full of lessons

  • about how to treat one another.

  • So, how do you figure out what the moral of a story is?

  • Good question.

  • One way to do it is to ask yourself what the problem

  • of the story is, or how the problem was solved.

  • From the hare's perspective, the problem in

  • "The Tortoise and the Hare" is that she lost the race.

  • What could she have done to avoid that happening?

  • Well, she probably shouldn't have stopped to take a nap.

  • From the tortoise's perspective, the problem is solved.

  • He won the race.

  • And how did he do that?

  • By maintaining a slow, steady pace for the whole race.

  • And then you take that lesson that the characters learned

  • and you say, "Okay, so this is true for everyone".

  • It's not just that hares should make sure not to nap

  • during foot races, it's that people who are good at stuff

  • shouldn't get so confident about their skills

  • that they don't try as hard.

  • The hare is really good at running quickly,

  • so she thinks she doesn't need to try so hard

  • against a tortoise.

  • Because that is what morals do,

  • they are lessons in stories that we can apply to our lives.

  • What's true for the hare and what's true for the tortoise

  • are true for you and me,

  • because those stories were invented to teach people stories,

  • not just tortoises and hares.

  • You can learn anything.

  • David out.

- [Instructor] Hello, readers.

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    林宜悉 に公開 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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