The phrase “The true voyage of discovery does not consist in seeking new lands, but in having new eyes,” extracted with a certain freedom of synthesis from Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is perhaps one of his best known and used phrases, in various contexts and for various reasons.
It is certainly evocative and fascinating and, in some ways, reflects a different way of seeing things and dealing with problems, although personally I believe that, in a business context, it might be more accurate to say, “The real journey of discovery is to seek new lands and to do so with new eyes,” to highlight that in a global, fast, fluid, and competitive world, survival is almost always a matter of goals (the new lands) and the strategy to achieve them (the new eyes).
Originally published at https://www.datavirtualizationblog.com on January 14, 2021.
