The Red Queen Effect
Understanding this (revealing) concept will move you ahead in your realm of life. Roger Von Oech shares in Expect the Unexpected; “More recently, American biologist Leigh Van Valen was inspired by the Red Queen character from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass. (She’s the one who runs hard but never gets anywhere because everything else in the landscape is also running. As she tells Alice, “It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place!”) Van Valen used the Red Queen as a metaphor for his evolutionary principle that regardless of how well a species adapts to its current environment, it must keep evolving in order to keep up with its competitors and enemies who are evolving. Thus the “Red Queen Effect”: do nothing and fall behind, or run hard to stay where you are. (This is also found in business, new technology development, and arms races.)”
Reading helps you run faster so you do not fall behind.