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158. Bigger Fish, or Bigger Pond?

No Stupid Questions

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The Big Fish, Little Pond, Little Fish, Big Pond

"If I had to choose between those, I would rather have the career of a Charles Barkley with no ring," he says. "I'd rather have been really good at my job contributed really, really meaningfully." He adds that being in a big pond with lots of fish who are great makes you feel worse about yourself. But there's a huge upside of being with people who are better than you, and that is that you improve. 'We make these choices, but our lives are movies, not snapshots'

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