12-08-2023, 08:40 PM
I've long been of the opinion that successful people are bad sources of advice. They don't actually understand their own success, but later try to reconstruct it after the fact. The biggest obstacle is people who benefited from luck, talent, timing and other advantages not really understanding that they began their process closer to the finish line that everybody else.
If you put it in the context of sports, winners like to talk about the hard word they did. But in my experience the benefits of hard work only account for a certain small percentage gained, and the returns diminish. Two people at the top will do a tremendous amount of work to beat the other by a small amount. But no amount of work will ever get most people anywhere near them. I think this can be applied to other facets of life as well.
If you put it in the context of sports, winners like to talk about the hard word they did. But in my experience the benefits of hard work only account for a certain small percentage gained, and the returns diminish. Two people at the top will do a tremendous amount of work to beat the other by a small amount. But no amount of work will ever get most people anywhere near them. I think this can be applied to other facets of life as well.