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All the running you can do.

In Lewis Carroll’s book, “Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There”, The Red Queen famously tells Alice, while running…

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.

Business people love this quote. It implies that in order to maintain a competitive advantage, you must continuously adapt, move, pivot, and sprint. Evolution.

On the other side of the coin, this concept is also known as a “Rat Race” or a “Hamster Wheel.”

I suppose it’s a matter of perspective.

Hopefully your life is evolving and you’re getting better at being you every day.