I think that "people who did hard things" fall on a spectrum between these two extremities: - someone who got lucky - someone who invested an unfathomable amo

I think that "people who did hard things" fall on a spectrum between these two extremities: - someone who got lucky - someone who invested an unfathomable amount of time to their craftsmanship or to their beliefs Of course it is not black and white, and even luck mostly requires hard work in the first place, which I admire (and if you find your luck - hold to it!, nothing wrong with that), but you get the gist. I guess that in other words what I am saying is: beware of the survivorship bias on the left side of this spectrum. -- Finally, the book: "The story of my experiments with Truth", Ghandi. Definitely belongs to the "work hard" extremity and a very interesting read; but I don't want to create an impression that I find it special in any way because of my above comment, it is just one of the latest I have read, consider the two comments unrelated.