“A concept described as an exhausting inward cycle of competition for narrow goals that leads to stagnation.”

“The central theme of the talk, described as a mind-corrupting cycle of internal exhaustion and stagnant competition.”

“The central concept discussed: a pattern where effort increases but meaningful gain grows slowly, leading to exhaustion.”

“And what you had is this thing called involution or nijuan. And it's interesting that's Chinese word. It's interesting that when Japan went a little of the ways down this road and then pulled back in...”