The Big Fish-Little Pond option might be scorned by some on the outside, but Small Ponds are welcoming places for those on the inside. The inverted-U curve reminds us that there is a point at which money and resources stop making our lives better and start making them worse. We all assume that being bigger and stronger and richer is always in our best interest, but it isn’t. Many people have simply fallen into the trap that wealthy people and wealthy institutions and wealthy countries – all Goliaths – too often fall into: the school assumes that the kinds of things that wealth can buy always translate into real-world advantages. Wealth contains the seeds of its own destruction.
Money makes parenting easier until a certain point – when it stops making much of a difference. But they’ve ruined by wealth as well because they lose their ambition and they lose their pride and they lose their sense of self-worth. People are ruined by challenged economic lives. But because his success, it would be difficult for his children to learn those same lessons. He was successful because he had learned the long and hard way about the value of money and the meaning of work and the joy and fulfillment that come from making your own way in the world. But he had created a giant contradiction, and he knew it. Like any parent, he – a self-made successful person – wanted to provide for their children, to them more than he had. But to earn it and save it and defer gratification – then you learn to value it differently. What we think of as an advantage and as a disadvantage is not always correct.Īny fool can spend money. You have to be so bad that you have no choice. To play by David’s rules you have to be desperate. The willingness to try harder than anyone else set winner and losers apart. Meanwhile, movement, endurance, individual intelligence, knowledge, and courage allowed underdogs to do the impossible. But it makes you immobile and puts you on the defensive.
Having lots of resources is an advantage. And the fact of being an underdog can change people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness. What we consider valuable in our world arises out of these kinds of lopsided conflicts, because the act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.
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