Survivorship Bias: Dropping Out of School Won't Make You a Billionaire. I Don't Care Who Did It.
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We love stories of people who bucked conventional wisdom to achieve incredible success. But not accounting for the failures in these stories is an error that distorts our view of reality. So and so dropped out of high school and started a business while working a paper route. Everyone told our intrepid maverick that X business is dead, and he's wasting his time. But he didn't listen. And today, he's a billionaire.
Survivorship Bias: Dropping Out of School Won't Make You a Billionaire. I Don't Care Who Did It.
Survivorship Bias: Dropping Out of School…
Survivorship Bias: Dropping Out of School Won't Make You a Billionaire. I Don't Care Who Did It.
We love stories of people who bucked conventional wisdom to achieve incredible success. But not accounting for the failures in these stories is an error that distorts our view of reality. So and so dropped out of high school and started a business while working a paper route. Everyone told our intrepid maverick that X business is dead, and he's wasting his time. But he didn't listen. And today, he's a billionaire.