Have you ever listened to How I Built This with Guy Raz on NPR? He interviews successful entrepreneurs about their life. A question he always asks is how much o

Have you ever listened to How I Built This with Guy Raz on NPR? He interviews successful entrepreneurs about their life. A question he always asks is how much of their success do they attribute to luck versus hard work. The majority (if not all) of them admit that luck is a major component. Almost all of them have risked everything at some point, barely scraped by, had a chance encounter with a stranger or friend of a friend. What you're seeing in these people isn't success. It is a lot of random circumstances culminating in the appearance of success. That is not to say Phil Knight and Elon and Bill didn't work hard or didn't have vision, but to look at them now and just see "success" and not "success + luck + failures + decades of trying + genes + a million other variables" is where you're falling short. If you can change your perception you can realize that you could attempt what they attempted, and you'll likely fail the same way they did, and maybe you'll never succeed. But the important part is that success is entirely up to you, because you're the one defining it for yourself. If that is "I want to be a tech entrepreneur making a billion dollars", then you better start studying every single tech entrepreneur in existence, and start studying business and technology and startups and consuming every shred of information you can find about it. Then you start trying to get there, one step at a time. And you have to be okay with the possibility that you'll maybe never get there. But spending your life trying to achieve something you want to achieve is as good a life as any.