I actually LOVE reading biographies, in fact this year I made a special point of reading as many biographies as I could. And yes, like this guy I read biographi

I actually LOVE reading biographies, in fact this year I made a special point of reading as many biographies as I could. And yes, like this guy I read biographies with the very specific goals of learning life lessons and ideas that I could implement in my own life. But I agree with his logic: (1) He is referring to autobiographies and not biographies. As he points out, plenty of biographies are critical and even extensively point out all the subject's flaws and failures. (2) The value of reading biographies comes from aggregating them not extrapolating from one. If you read 10 biographies of entrepreneurs and you notice the same 3 recurring themes in all their stories, that's a good hit that those themes are not random. (3) There is definitely a danger of survivor bias, but the best biographies do a good job of trying to figure how much luck played a role in an individual's success. But the bottomline is that no matter what you read, you do have to take it with a grain of salt and consider that there are probably many other factors which were not included.