The Fox and the Grapes — don't let the failure re-rate the goal
Aesop, Perry Index 15. A hungry fox leaps again and again for a cluster of grapes hanging just out of reach. Failing, he walks off muttering that they were sour and unripe anyway. The grapes never changed — only his reach fell short. This fable is the origin of the English phrase "sour grapes."
The schema: rationalizing a failure as the goal-being-unworthy — a specific motivated-reasoning failure that masks the real le
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