Everybody is familiar with the fable of the North Wind and the Sun of Aesop. The story goes as follows: the North Wind and the Sun are arguing about their confidence in their competence. One day, they found a traveler passing through below, and the North Wind suggested that they try letting him take off their clothes. First, the North Wind blew a gale of wind to take off his clothes, but the traveler tried not to get them blown off; the North Wind failed. Then the Sun glared with his sunlight, and the traveler felt torrid and took off his clothes; the Sun was victorious.
This is the ordinary fable we all must have learned in our youth; the last week, however, I heard on the radio that there is a second round, in fact. The second round is to take the traveler’s hat off. In turn, the Sun first glared again to let him take off his hat using the heat. The traveler, however, pulled his hat all the way down to his brows to shun the sunlight; the Sun lost this time around. Then the North Wind made a gale of wind again and pulled off taking his hat away. The lesson from the second round system is that we need to play it by ear from time to time, instead of sticking to only one strategy.
To hear this, I was genuinely taken aback because that changes the entire meaning of the story and tried putting it down on my SNS, which brags about 2 followers to express my shock. But before that, I looked up the original story. I was boggled again. There were no such texts pertaining to the second round!! To look up more closely, a couple of Japanese blogs wrote down about that second round system, and the radio host or the radio program screenplay writer seemed to have believed that story.
Now, a lesson from me: Double-check what you found and heard on the Internet or SNS before you tell other people about that.
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