I think a fair amount of "common advice" is wrong. Things like "work hard", "you can be whatever you want", "persevere" . There are truths in there; success d

I think a fair amount of "common advice" is wrong. Things like "work hard", "you can be whatever you want", "persevere" . There are truths in there; success does take hard work, but hard work does not lead to success. Success takes perseverance, but perseverance does not lead to success. Baking bread requires time, but having time does not lead to bread. You can do all the work, you can have most of the ingredients, but without yeast you don't get bread. It doesn't matter how much time, perseverance, work or dreams you put in. Finding the right advice is hard because unless someone can see what you are doing right, it's hard to know what is missing. Yes, sometimes the yeast is luck. But even knowing that is helpful. Luck (aka chance) can often be improved. I was lucky to land in the job I did, but I am least put myself in the right place at the right time. The worst advice is something you are already doing (hard work perseverence) without success. It's the equivalent of "what you are doing is not working, but keep doing it anyway" which is terrible.