Would you grant me an explanation about why ‘actually knowing’ is important?
Sorry I missed this question earlier. It’s not important per se, but not actually knowing when one is under the impression of knowing is a problem.
In this case, a lot of entrepreneurs who have started successful businesses have a lot of opinions about why they succeeded while others failed. But their self-reports don’t necessarily tell us why they succeeded; those reports tell us only what they think was responsible for their success. Someone who insists that their aggressive advertising campaign was essential to their success might totally miss that a vastly more important factor was actually, say, that they exude more pheromones than average.
So, I’m weary of success advice even from successful people because it’s all too common for people to be oblivious to the most potent factors responsible for their success.
Sorry I missed this question earlier. It’s not important per se, but not actually knowing when one is under the impression of knowing is a problem.
In this case, a lot of entrepreneurs who have started successful businesses have a lot of opinions about why they succeeded while others failed. But their self-reports don’t necessarily tell us why they succeeded; those reports tell us only what they think was responsible for their success. Someone who insists that their aggressive advertising campaign was essential to their success might totally miss that a vastly more important factor was actually, say, that they exude more pheromones than average.
So, I’m weary of success advice even from successful people because it’s all too common for people to be oblivious to the most potent factors responsible for their success.