We all love reading stories about how to succeed. We do it every day in everything we do. We are always looking for that answer, the method to just fixing up whatever it is we feel we are missing.
Just look what is out there; the detox slimming diet that is the key to long term weight loss; put magnets in your mattress and your backache will go away; subscribe to an infallible betting scheme and you will become a millionaire from betting on the horses.
In business there are self-help books disguised as biographies of the likes of Bill Gates and Richard Branson, Warren Buffet and so on.
There are also case studies about successful businesses.
The implication is that if only we follow their example then we too can be fabulously rich and famous.
If only.
All the success stories and methods for getting rich are based on true stories which are not repeatable. That person was in the right place at the right time with the right attitude and the right product. The exact circumstances are never repeatable.
What you can get out of those books and stories is how those people thought, how they approached the situation, how they dealt with the risks they were facing and what they did to keep going. It is often very inspiring.
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