Regarding 8, cultivating talent vs. genius - I'd argue an increasing majority of what we call genius nets out when we control for the effect of crazy meeting su

Regarding 8, cultivating talent vs. genius - I'd argue an increasing majority of what we call genius nets out when we control for the effect of crazy meeting survivor bias. As someone familiar with all of the listed ideas, I get the sense these contrarian proverbs form a kind of modern hacker subculture tribal knowledge. What I've noticed is that none of the most (or least) successful people I know think this way, it's like a view from the outside or the middle. Maybe the co-incidence of financial success and a mind full of gnomic aphorisms is no better than random too?