> The dirty little secret that the successful don't like to admit. Plenty of people worked as hard as they did - the only difference between them and the "losers" is that they got lucky.
The problem is that the alternative is a dangerous narrative, because you can't control how lucky you are (and you don't always know your luck ahead of time), but you can control how much effort you put in.
If you go around telling people that it's basically just luck then they don't even try and then they aren't in a position to capitalize even if they are one of the lucky ones.
People also tend to focus on the billionaires, where the only way to really make it to that level is to win the "right place at the right time" lottery that a million other people who tried just as hard will lose. But far, far more people succeed in building a lifestyle business than succeed in founding a unicorn, and it's disingenuous to count all of those small successes as failures just because they're not all filthy rich.
The problem is that the alternative is a dangerous narrative, because you can't control how lucky you are (and you don't always know your luck ahead of time), but you can control how much effort you put in.
If you go around telling people that it's basically just luck then they don't even try and then they aren't in a position to capitalize even if they are one of the lucky ones.
People also tend to focus on the billionaires, where the only way to really make it to that level is to win the "right place at the right time" lottery that a million other people who tried just as hard will lose. But far, far more people succeed in building a lifestyle business than succeed in founding a unicorn, and it's disingenuous to count all of those small successes as failures just because they're not all filthy rich.