The heart of the “bootstraps” narrative is ego. Even after you explain how lucky all of them had to get, ego is a lot of people’s blind spot.

He wasn’t acting in the “money can’t unlame you” skit. That shit was autobiographical

Nobody that made it ever wants to acknowledge the luck stat

"Luck is when Preparation Meets Opportunity" is the saying Bill was looking for.

Diary of a CEO is trash

oh the irony of druski parroting these talking points when he’s literally built his brand of making fun of white ppl who parrot the same talking points too as well with pull yourself up by your bootstraps!!

“(Be weary) of the advice of successful, people (more often then not) they do not seek company” Scott Adam’s

Even Shia Labeouf acknowledges he "hit the lottery" with his career.

I hate his argument so bad, like being able to be obsessed with something isn't privileged, isn't ruinous, doesn't cost more than you'll ever get back sometimes. It doesn't matter how obsessed and dedicated you are to something if it's not actively paying your bills or taking care of your family, or if you lack the access to certain spaces so that you don't get absorbed in the sea of content noise. Luck benefits those that are prepared, but the cost of preparation is often more than what most people can afford

Yep, luck and survivorship bias are often left out of the picture of  success stories.

I hate telling people I have a new hobby cuz they always want me to monetize it and then all the joy I derived from it is now gone smh

I have been preaching to my friends lately how important it is that we embrace our hobbies and just doing what you enjoy not tryna turn it into content or some 6 figure business

The “pull yourself up by your boot straps” argument assumes that there is a direct correlation between hard work and wealth when it’s been proven time & time again that that is not true.

And what makes it even MORE frustrating is that the ppl espousing that rhetoric know that what they’ve accomplished is nearly impossible. They KNOW they got lucky in addition to working hard yet they make it seem like luck and connections had nothing to do with it

You're telling me I shouldn't take financial/career advice from druski? I'm shocked

It’s a psychological issue where it clear HE couldn’t have gotten to where he’s at if not for the hustle grind stuff but it’s a problem when you make your personal experience a sociological fact about why people end up where they do. They found this same thing in games of Monopoly where people are given an advantage at the beginning of the game are actually more likely to attribute their later success to their skill rather than benefits they were given to start. It’s a tension a lot of people don’t want to contend with at all

I thought Druski was doing a skit when I saw him doing this interview

This went deeper than I expected, appreciated the insights on this. As a black guy in his 20’s I take a lot from these kind of discussions on topics you don’t really hear about

Every successful person who didn't merely inherit their success is profoundly lucky and to pretend otherwise is arrogance. Even the inheritor is lucky but that's a different type of luck.

I believe that the biggest factors of success are timing and luck. A lot of talented and knowledgeable people do not achieve the level of success most would expect them to.

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All you ever hear as an artist, is you've gotta sell your art. Like your art has to hit the market to be enjoyed, that there has to be a monetary value behind it, as if you need capital gained for it to  have meaning and be worthy of your time...