158. Bigger Fish, or Bigger Pond?
No Stupid Questions
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🗓️ 13 August 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Can we not do that on the air together? |
| 0:04.4 | I'm Angela Duckworth. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm Mike Marn. |
| 0:07.8 | And you're listening to No Stupid Questions. |
| 0:11.4 | Today on the show, would you rather be the worst person on the best team or the best |
| 0:16.8 | person on the worst team? |
| 0:19.4 | What a eye. |
| 0:20.4 | I am this vanilla kid from Cherry Home of Jersey whose greatest accomplishment was being |
| 0:26.8 | captain of an extremely mediocre cheerleading squad. |
| 0:34.6 | Angela, I am super excited for our conversation because while there are no stupid questions, |
| 0:39.9 | I think some questions are maybe more intriguing than others and I feel like this is one. |
| 0:44.6 | I'm all ears. |
| 0:45.8 | This comes to us from Lucas. |
| 0:47.2 | He wrote in and asked which has more upside to be the best person on the worst team or |
| 0:52.8 | the worst on the best team. |
| 0:55.0 | And then he clarified, assume you could be the actual best or assume you are the literal |
| 1:00.4 | worst. |
| 1:01.4 | I love this question because immediately the mind goes to, why can't I be the best on |
| 1:05.6 | the best team? |
| 1:06.6 | Immediately the mind of a super competitive person goes to that. |
| 1:11.2 | I think the question Lucas asks is so good because there are upsides to both. |
| 1:18.3 | So let's walk through the possibility of being the best player on the worst team. |
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