@hansw@mastodon.social @freemo The survivorship bias is strong with this one. Pursuing a random whim and ignoring failures on your way sounds like a great recipe for dying quickly as an unknown freak.
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you really do have a nack of being oblivious to implied nuance and responding to something with complete ignorance to the nuance most other readers recognize and assume going in.
first off not sure what "pursuing a random whim" has to do with anything I just said. Nothing I said had anything to do with randomness in ones persuits or them being whims.
Furthermore I never said anything about "ignoring failures" either. I said they arent demotivated by failures, that in no way implies those failures were ignored or that the failures did not change their behavior or decisions, nor does it imply they didnt learn from their failures.
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@freemo @L29Ah @hansw I agree there is a strong bias. Society loves heroes so, most of the stories are written in this. Moreover, there is no mean to know if they were desmotivated at least for a moment because we all love that epic too. And even failures are known only when something came up from it. But what about all the others? I agree that failure is a main part in the process. A brief book is Failure: Why Science Is so Successful by Stuart Firestein