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Why billionaire advice leaves out the failures

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Survivorship bias is profoundly terrible data analysis. Society idolizes college dropouts who founded tech empires, falsely assuming their specific morning routine holds the secret to endless wealth. We conveniently ignore the graveyard of thousands of identical dropouts who tried the exact same strategy and now live in their parents' basements.

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