Fish that live in the sea, river, lake and your home aquarium are different. Fish live in the aquarium behave differently from fish that live in the lake, the river and the ocean. The fishes that live in aquarium are more passive, weaker and less survival capability compare those which live in the river or sea, even the fish itself come from same family, species and physical aspects. For example, for certain same species of fish, they eat their own eggs for those live in the river, but never happen to those live in the ocean. For physical aspects, fishes in which live in the ocean has stronger defensive system compare for the same size, same species of those live in the river. Fishes that live in the river could not survive in the ocean but this theory does not apply to the all counter part of fishes living in the ocean. Ocean fish has stronger adaptability as because of the ocean environment itself are more competitive, more dangerous compare to its counterpart of river, lake or your home aquarium. Yet, the ocean is much wider and bigger. It is an environment of abundance. It can provide more than enough to every living creatures. But, the river, the lake and the aquarium in your house, the resources for the fish to survive is limited. The lake depends on the rains. The 4 seasons river dry when drought is hit. The aquarium need to be rely on the owners. This mean, the ocean is abundance and independence. The river, lake and aquarium is dependence and limited in resources. Fishes living in the river, lake and aquarium is basically living in the mercy of external factors rather than own survival skills. That's why, fishes living other than ocean, sometimes so desperate to survive, they need to be cannibalism.
The concept apply to businesses and investments world. Some investor would like to stay big in small town, and some investor like to start small in big cities. The small town businesses owner or investors will live in the environment of resources limited. They need to adopt the concept of killing other in order to win as the resources are limited. They so afraid of some day some bigger player will come and wipe them out. They though they in control but basically they out of control. These "big fishes in the aquarium" so afraid of strangest or new players to come to the town. We can see these economy pattern in the small towns, whereby, often the lands, the shops, the farms is belongs to one family business.
On the counter part, some investors (like me^^) would like to start as small fish in the big wild ocean. The ocean itself is abundances. It is create for everyone to win. Businesses owners and investors from big ocean, regardless big or small behave so differently. They welcome new comers as long it is a good deal. The mindset of to be independence-dependence. They know they just need to be more skills, more educated, well-equipped in order to win. It does not take to be a killers or take a loser to make a winner. It just need to be more financially educated. And by knowing "how-to", even start as a small fish, in big ocean, everyone has the chances to win, and win big. Once you able to win in the ocean, you able to win in any kind of situation, circumstances and environment. The true investor will rather be a small fish in the big ocean rather than a big old fish in a small aquarium. Still, the bottom line, the choice is up to you!
*Thanks to my friend again, Mr. Zaidi Abdul Karim for his insight about Fishes.
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