A
farmer once set a competition between his dog and his rabbit. He made a
hole in one of his biggest fields, and hid a carrot and a bone in it. He
wanted to see which animal would find them first. The rabbit was very
cheerful and optimistic, and he threw himself into looking for the
carrot, digging everywhere, totally convinced that he would find it. The
dog on the other hand, wasn't as excited. After sniffing around for a
bit, he lay down and began to complain how difficult it was to find one
bone in such a big field. The rabbit dug for hours, and with every new
hole the dog complained even more about how difficult this was, even for
the rabbit. Meanwhile, For the rabbit, he thought that each hole dug
was one less hole to dig. When there was no place in the whole field
left to dig, the rabbit dug a tunnel to right under where the dog had
been lying all that time. There he found the carrot and the bone.
