Well, at least the author did not suggest a specific morning routine. As the others said, taking serial risks is a luxury. I did not have that luxury coming fr

Well, at least the author did not suggest a specific morning routine. As the others said, taking serial risks is a luxury. I did not have that luxury coming from a family on wellfare. I had to finish high school with honors, I had to go to college, I had to graduate, I had to find a job, and I had to pay my first rent. There was no messing around with a startup in my parents' garage. Didn't have a garage. Didn't even have a computer while the other kids did. People describe garages as a rags to riches story. Nope. If you can do that, you are already ahead. Stop bragging about starting out in your garage. Here is what it's all about. THERE IS NO FORMULA. Is success a product of pure luck. No. Is it a product of hard, non-stop work. Also no. The truth is in the middle, and the middle itself is highly individual. Life is about tilting the scales of luck in your favor with hard work, but there is absolutely zero guarantee. Some people just walk into riches with minimal effort. Why? They were at the right place, right time, of the right age, enough means, and enough ability to take risk. Others just have a nuclear motor up their ass, like Masa Son, who never stops until the macaroni sticks to the wall. Masa famously set out to produce one business idea per day. Is he a brilliant business mind? He has made some shockingly bad decisions, and have you seen his slide decks and the 300-year-long plan? The man is pure hard work, but if you read his story, a lot of stars had to align. Entrepreneurial parents, relatives in the US when he went to school here, etc. What's a smart poor kid in Peru to do? And the rest of us? We try to work hard, we do our best every day. Will it work? No one knows. The variables are too many, and the luck factor will take it in either direction. If I ever make it, I promise you, HN, I will not be talking about what YOU should be doing in order to become successful, and I will never start a podcast about how to live the "correct" life in order to make it. Tim Ferriss, I am looking at you, buddy.