Why Visiting The Graveyards Is Not A Bad Idea
Mr. Nitin, a professor at an engineering college, is an avid book reader. He has been reading a book each month for the last four years. He is amused that most books exhibit "National Best Seller" or "One Million Copies Sold" on the book's cover. This made him think it was too easy to write a book, sell a million copies, and get rich. In the pursuit of getting rich, he started by thinking of a topic for the book. After a month, he was still wondering about the names of chapters for his book. One year down, he can still not write the first chapter. He finally gives up writing & gets back to reading as usual.
In our daily lives, successes are more visible than failures, leading people to systematically overestimate the chances of success. We hear about successful authors, musicians, artists, and athletes from the media. However, the media never talks about the person who started his pursuit with the same set of goals but unfortunately failed to achieve them. Nobody is interested in talking about failures.
In our daily lives, successes are more visible than failures, leading people to systematically overestimate the chances of success. We hear about successful authors, musicians, artists, and athletes from the media. However, the media never talks about the person who started his pursuit with the same set of goals but unfortunately failed to achieve them. Nobody is interested in talking about failures.
In our daily lives, successes are more visible than failures, leading people to systematically overestimate the chances of success. We hear about successful authors, musicians, artists, and athletes from the media. However, the media never talks about the person who started his pursuit with the same set of goals but unfortunately failed to achieve them. Nobody is interested in talking about failures.
How many people would come on YouTube and share their failures? Is the media interested in interviewing the people who started with good intentions but failed for any reason? NO! Why? Because nobody is interested in talking about failures. You have to do the Graveyard digging yourself to figure out the probability of success.
Behind every famous author, you can find a hundred other writers whose books will never sell. Behind them are another hundred who haven't found publishers. Behind them are yet another hundred whose unfinished manuscripts gather dust in drawers. And behind each one of these is hundred people who dream of - one day - writing a book. You, however, hear only of the successful authors.
So the next time you are presented with a wonderful life-changing opportunity, that sounds too easy. Take a step back, analyze the probability of succeeding, understand the uncontrollable moving factors involved in the game & then take a call. Most of the time, you would be better off living a normal life with higher stability that doesn't need this "wonderful life-changing opportunity."