“What does following in the footsteps of everyone else get you? It gets you to exactly the same conclusion as everyone else”- Ryan Holiday. Holiday explains that if you read what everyone else is reading, you will think like everyone else thinks and if you think like everyone else thinks, you won’t be able to come up with anything unique.  In case you asleep, or wallowing in the footsteps of everyone else and still expecting a change in your life by some form of religious miracle then prepare to be wiped off by an unexpected miracle in your proximity. This is because the world is evolving faster than expected and creating enormous competition in all aspects of lives. One moment you are “this and here”, and the next you are “that and there”. At the top today, and bottom the next day. The choice of packaging yourself well to thriving well through the competition as the world evolves into space of time is yours to decide.
The quote – “the world is not a race” I believe is becoming obsolete. This is because if the world is not a race in other words a competition, why then do we struggle to add value to ourselves and to what we already possess, why do we have to keep upgrading our professional profile and requisite skills, why do we desire to have a better nation, why is sumsung struggling to produce similar product as iPhone, why is Microsoft improving its packages and developing new operating systems, why do we even have to update our apps and operating systems on our personal computers, … now! That is the growth and competition am referring to. Although we harmoniously co-relate with each other and try to share available resources, we somehow compete for them both consciously and unconsciously hence the world is a race.