The parable of the fox and the hedgehog tells us that there are some who are guided by one big idea. That's the story of Don Laub, a surgeon whose single-mindedness led to both triumph and tragedy.

Everyday ethics: The fox, the hedgehog and lessons for today’s world An ancient myth has a lot to say for people in modern times.

A life well-lived should be about the struggle for many good things, not just one.

The story was picked up by philosopher Isaiah Berlin in a short 1953 essay about the fox and hedgehog. It is often quoted by philosophers and management consultants as wisdom for organizing one ...

Plato was a hedgehog who knew one big thing, expressed in his well-known parable of the cave with its famous distinction between reality and mere shadows; Aristotle was a fox who knew many things ...

An ancient proverb imparts: the fox knows many little things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. This insight is expanded through the moral of Aesop’s fable, “The Fox and the Hedgehog,” which ...

Channel your inner hedgehog “A fox knows many things, but a hedgehog knows one big thing,” wrote the ancient Greek poet Archilochus.

Watch fox, badger and hedgehog clash over food scraps in garden. Who would win in a fight between....? leicestermercury. Bookmark. Share; Comments; News. By. Dave Owen. 04:00, 4 MAR 2023; Bookmark.