Filed Under: Thinking Out Loud
From a book I’m reading:
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re a lion or a gazelle; when the sun comes up, you had better start running.
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