Theme Of Working Smarter
To achieve your goal is not to work harder but to work smarter. If you work too hard, it would lead to stress and despair, and to work smarter would be a quicker way to work and unstressful. Harold Courlander was the author of “All Stories are Anansi’s”, an african folktale. The theme of this story is “working smarter than harder”. “Working smarter than harder” means to work efficiently, to strategized, and quicker than to work hard which makes things harder. “Working smarter than harder” shows a lot in the story. “All Stories are Anansi’s” is about a Anansi, a small spider, that wanted to be the owner of all stories known in the world. He went to Nyame, the sky god and the owner of all stories, to offer to buy all the stories. Nyame is willing
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These animals are very hard to capture but Anansi does many tricks to capture these three animals to be capture which relates to the theme, “working smarter than harder.” For example, Anansi made a trap for the hornets which is the gourd. He made himself look wet and asked the hornets, “ Are you foolish people? Why would you stay in the rain that is falling?” The hornets replied, “Where shall we go?” Anansi told them to go gourd. Once the hornets were in the gourd, Anansi capture them and gave them to Nyame. Anansi had fool the hornets and captured them instead chasing around. This example really shows the theme of “working smarter than harder.” Another example is when Anansi captures Onini, the great python. Anansi tricks Onini to think …show more content…
For example, I needed to sell 50 Girl Scout cookies. I kept asking people if they wanted some cookies but they always rely with, “No.” I notice that I won’t sell cookies by asking so I decide to do another strategy. I ask door-to-door and sold 15 boxes. Then I sold 25 boxes from selling in front of a store. Lastly, I sold the last 10 boxes to my relatives. At first, I was working hard and not thinking how to accurately sell cookies. I was working harder not smarter. I have finally figured to work smarter than harder. As I grew order, I learned to organized my time to do my homework faster then shoving it in at different time. “Working smarter than harder” really helped me in
These animals are very hard to capture but Anansi does many tricks to capture these three animals to be capture which relates to the theme, “working smarter than harder.” For example, Anansi made a trap for the hornets which is the gourd. He made himself look wet and asked the hornets, “ Are you foolish people? Why would you stay in the rain that is falling?” The hornets replied, “Where shall we go?” Anansi told them to go gourd. Once the hornets were in the gourd, Anansi capture them and gave them to Nyame. Anansi had fool the hornets and captured them instead chasing around. This example really shows the theme of “working smarter than harder.” Another example is when Anansi captures Onini, the great python. Anansi tricks Onini to think …show more content…
For example, I needed to sell 50 Girl Scout cookies. I kept asking people if they wanted some cookies but they always rely with, “No.” I notice that I won’t sell cookies by asking so I decide to do another strategy. I ask door-to-door and sold 15 boxes. Then I sold 25 boxes from selling in front of a store. Lastly, I sold the last 10 boxes to my relatives. At first, I was working hard and not thinking how to accurately sell cookies. I was working harder not smarter. I have finally figured to work smarter than harder. As I grew order, I learned to organized my time to do my homework faster then shoving it in at different time. “Working smarter than harder” really helped me in