And as usually the case when people brought up selection bias, or survivor bias, you made the assumption that he only studied the successful. He never said he d

And as usually the case when people brought up selection bias, or survivor bias, you made the assumption that he only studied the successful. He never said he did. I agreed that most attempts to invent new industries ended up in failure, by either crazy or regular people. That's because it's insanely hard to do so in the face of competition by the incumbents, not to mention going against the opinion of logical and well reasoning smart people, who are of course right 99.9 % of the time. For those who succeeded however, they are crazy -- as defined by the author -- most of the time. I think that's what the author intends to convey. If you can think of any new industry that invented by "normal" people who work within the system, I'd love to hear.