Red Queen’s Race
“Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else—if you run very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.”
“A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
Lewis Carroll, “Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There”, 1871.
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To get yourself in the 2020 context, just substitute the word “country” above with “industry” or “job” and read the text again.
Running fast gets you nowhere these days. It is running twice faster then the others that you will excel.