More subtly, some of the advice doesn't fall into the "random" category, so much as "necessary, but not sufficient." It probably is true, that if successful person didn't do X, then they wouldn't have achieved success. But also probably true that many people do X and aren't successful. Hard work is the probably the classic example. But t…
More subtly, some of the advice doesn't fall into the "random" category, so much as "necessary, but not sufficient." It probably is true, that if successful person didn't do X, then they wouldn't have achieved success. But also probably true that many people do X and aren't successful. Hard work is the probably the classic example. But that doesn't mean you don't need to care about something like hard work, it just isn't sufficient. There is other secret sauce - some random - but also some other factor that just are difficult to articulate from the inside position of a participant.
More subtly, some of the advice doesn't fall into the "random" category, so much as "necessary, but not sufficient." It probably is true, that if successful person didn't do X, then they wouldn't have achieved success. But also probably true that many people do X and aren't successful. Hard work is the probably the classic example. But that doesn't mean you don't need to care about something like hard work, it just isn't sufficient. There is other secret sauce - some random - but also some other factor that just are difficult to articulate from the inside position of a participant.