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> But it's hard for me to ignore the survivorship bias at play here. Surely it works the other way as well -- for all the stories of people who worked all nigh
by zorpner 7y ago
> But it's hard for me to ignore the survivorship bias at play here.
Surely it works the other way as well -- for all the stories of people who worked all night to achieve success, there are others about people who either did so and didn't win, or worse yet burnt themselves out or hurt their lives in other ways.
- k__ 7y agoThis. Everyone thinks their experience reflects an universal truth. That's the one big error, in my opinion. What I learned in my life is, find your individual way. Don't play other peoples games, play your own game. Pick what you need from the system and throw the rest away. I'm bad at standing up before 12 and even worse at working 40h a week. I'm don't like doing the same stuff for years. I'm bad at networking for work, most people I meet there are just boring or upsetting to me. All these things set me up for failure, still I'm doing better than most of my friends who are better at these things by a mile.