>>> a man quits his job and becomes a successful author through talent and motivation. Then, throughout the rest of the article, he adds nuance and exposes some

>>> a man quits his job and becomes a successful author through talent and motivation. Then, throughout the rest of the article, he adds nuance and exposes some of the overlooked details - that man was supported financially by his wife, had free time throughout the day to work, developed his talent excruciatingly slowly and took almost twenty years to catch his first break. A friend of mine was an "overnight success" as an electronic music producer. I hung out with him at a festival in europe and all these other djs were telling him what a genius he was, and how it's amazing that his "first song" was such a huge success. They didn't know that A) he'd been working producing music for 15 years, since he was in high school. B) He quit his job as a software developer to work on music full time and was supported by his girlfriend who is a doctor and C) had already released 5 or 6 songs over the course of five years in a different genre and under a different alias and fizzled out D) only got his big break because he handed his song to a famous DJ at a gig through a friend. I think he's an absolutely brilliant producer, but it's not because he had any inherent musical ability at all. He just worked his ass off for over a decade and eventually got really good at it, and more importantly got to know the right people who could do something with his music when it was good enough.