While it’s fun to be a big fish in a small pond, it can also keep you from becoming the fish you wish to become.

Despite their vital role in maintaining healthy oceans and their high economic value, only in recent years have forage fish—small fish that rank relatively ... but are rarely directly consumed by ...

To choose something elite is, more often than not, to choose being a little fish in a big pond, he says, since only a select few will shine among the best. He believes people are generally better ...