There's an interview with Bo Burnham where he puts it clearly...
> Don't listen to people who just got very lucky. Taylor Swift telling you to "follow your dreams" is like a lottery winner saying "liquidise your assets, buy Powerball tickets. It works!"
And that's the thing. Skill and talent are important, but there's a certain amount of success that's only achievable through luck, or through starting from _so far ahead_ that it's just genuinely out of reach for us mere mortals.
Is the experience of those people irrelevant? No, but it's also not actually applicable to most other people.
I scroll the page to keep the text I'm reading at a relatively consistent height.
I don't read the entire length of the page before scrolling, I read a paragraph or two before scrolling.
When I read a book, I don't usually put the book in one place then read down it, I'll often move the book up slowly to that it's always in a position to read where my head/neck is comfortable.
I, for one, am glad that the world doesn't scroll this way.
> Don't listen to people who just got very lucky. Taylor Swift telling you to "follow your dreams" is like a lottery winner saying "liquidise your assets, buy Powerball tickets. It works!"
And that's the thing. Skill and talent are important, but there's a certain amount of success that's only achievable through luck, or through starting from _so far ahead_ that it's just genuinely out of reach for us mere mortals.
Is the experience of those people irrelevant? No, but it's also not actually applicable to most other people.