Shrinking your ambitions isn't the same thing as shrinking your brain. Living inside the valley means your surrounded by people whose insane ambitions are much

Shrinking your ambitions isn't the same thing as shrinking your brain. Living inside the valley means your surrounded by people whose insane ambitions are much more likely to have paid off. You only see the successful ones, because the failures either never make it in, or have left. In general, living anywhere else means you are surrounded by people whose insane ambitions didn't pay off, and who have achieved whatever success they have by being more modest.