"there's a good chance you'll succeed. Is this actually true?" Depends on what you mean by "good chance" obviously. And "succeed". "accurate picture of how o

"there's a good chance you'll succeed. Is this actually true?" Depends on what you mean by "good chance" obviously. And "succeed". "accurate picture of how one can become successful." I looked at your website from your profile. Being successful at the "creative" things you are good at would be much more difficult than some of the other less creative things you have listed. There are (from my observation and I believe this is common knowledge) many people who have really good creative skills in music, art, acting etc and no where near enough opportunities for those people to make a good career out of it. In that case the hustle is probably even more important than the skill level (not that that's not important). But even with hustle it can be random. And there are many people hustling to get ahead. You aren't competing with people to get a job as a dental hygienist who really isn't super into their job, right? Some of your competitors are really totally over the top in their commitment to doing what you want to do. They aren't phoning it in or anything. Like with dating or landing a job you only have to be right one time (well assuming you find "the right one"). Not like selling where you have to find a certain number of sales per time period. So you have to assess how much time and effort it takes to get a sale and extrapolate.