34: The legend of success
What Netflix, Ninjas, Samurai and Spartans have in common, and what you can learn from legends about success.
Where do legends come from? I have a theory that every success story is a little less successful than you'd imagine. Heroism and success change our lens on the fact. If you take a big bet and it pays off you're a visionary. If you tank, you were drunk on grand delusions. The stories we hear in the wild are also coloured by survivorship bias. Everyone wa…
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