Comment on Startup School And Survivor BiasparentComments−confluence13yThanks. Here's my tool for visualizing the effect of luck. Replace it with "being alive". Or "not being born in Afghanistan". Or even consider this.How many sperm cells were present during one's conception?Answer: 200-500 million.Compound this with the fact that over 125 billion people have lived on this planet since we first evolved. Only 7 billion are alive today.That's pretty darn lucky. Or more humorously: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvpbzRf99-8Being rich does wonders for your chances of success, as does being alive. Sadly it does the same with one's ego.
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Thanks. Here's my tool for visualizing the effect of luck. Replace it with "being alive". Or "not being born in Afghanistan". Or even consider this.
How many sperm cells were present during one's conception?
Answer: 200-500 million.
Compound this with the fact that over 125 billion people have lived on this planet since we first evolved. Only 7 billion are alive today.
That's pretty darn lucky. Or more humorously: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvpbzRf99-8
Being rich does wonders for your chances of success, as does being alive. Sadly it does the same with one's ego.