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By: Joshua Danton Boyd In the popular TV show Rome, the character Titus Pullo reassures the young Gaius Octavian Caesar that to be a middling swordsman is better than nothing. Caesar is quick to respond. “There you are wrong. The graveyards are full of middling swordsmen. Best not to be a swordsman at all than a middling swordsman.” This might be a slight extreme of course, but being in the middle of your industry is not a great thing. Sure, it might bring you some work, but will it be as fulfilling as being at the top of your field …