OP here. First of all. You are 100% right. Genetics, environment, and everything else put you on some trajectory. It's much easier if this trajectory helps you.

OP here. First of all. You are 100% right. Genetics, environment, and everything else put you on some trajectory. It's much easier if this trajectory helps you. It's much harder if it works against you. I overgeneralized the title. However, within the article, I mentioned that my blog is mostly for software engineers (and not hockey players). Talking about getting in pro hockey is unfair. It's like saying, I want to be in the top 10% of Olympic participants( which actually put you in 0.000001% of all people participating in the sport). It would be the same thing if I said, it's easy to get to top 10% of 1000 best AI experts in the world. I am more talking about the whole field (all of the software engineers).