Yes, his story and his humility are inspiring, but I think there is a bit of survivorship bias in drawing conclusions from a talk like this, or from one person'

Yes, his story and his humility are inspiring, but I think there is a bit of survivorship bias in drawing conclusions from a talk like this, or from one person's experience. For example, I can't imagine someone being accepted to give a talk at a security conference about how they tried for 2 years to learn C++ to find a vulnerability in Chrome, but failed to even get as far as understanding enough to change a line of code.