  I discuss the impact of the discovery of a Higgs-like state on composite
dynamics starting by critically examining the reasons in favour of either an
elementary or composite nature of this state. Accepting the standard model
interpretation I re-address the standard model vacuum stability within a
Weyl-consistent computation.
  I will carefully examine the fundamental reasons why what has been discovered
might not be the standard model Higgs. Dynamical electroweak breaking naturally
addresses a number of the fundamental issues unsolved by the standard model
interpretation. However this paradigm has been challenged by the discovery of a
not-so-heavy Higgs-like state. I will therefore review the recent discovery
\cite{Foadi:2012bb} that the standard model top-induced radiative corrections
naturally reduce the intrinsic non-perturbative mass of the composite Higgs
state towards the desired experimental value. Not only we have a natural and
testable working framework but we have also suggested specific gauge theories
that can realise, at the fundamental level, these minimal models of dynamical
electroweak symmetry breaking. These strongly coupled gauge theories are now
being heavily investigated via first principle lattice simulations with
encouraging results.
  The new findings show that the recent naive claims made about new strong
dynamics at the electroweak scale being disfavoured by the discovery of a
not-so-heavy composite Higgs are unwarranted.
  I will then introduce the more speculative idea of extreme compositeness
according to which not only the Higgs sector of the standard model is composite
but also quarks and leptons, and provide a toy example in the form of
gauge-gauge duality.
