"It is occasionally possible for a tortoise content to assimilate proven insights of his best predecessors to outrun hares that seek originality or don't wish to be left out of some crowd folly that ignores the best work of the past.
This happens as the tortoise stumbles on some particularly effective way to apply the best previous work or simply avoids the standard calamities.
We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric. It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid instead of trying to be very intelligent.”
– Charlie Munger
