The fishing is best where the fewest go, and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming for base hits. There is just less competition for bigger goals.

...escape our culture's obsession with comparing, competing, and never feeling we are "enough."

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

That is the iron law of institutional schooling — it is a business, subject neither to normal accounting procedures nor to the rational scalpel of competition.