Awesome post! I think this is one of the thing that holds back a lot of people who are fooled by the survivor bias in their idols. They see someone's success and see that person saying something like "all you have to do is try" and sure enough, they try once... but when it doesn't work right away they walk away. It's a shame people refuse to try and work their way through things and create ideas or find their own personal approach to a breakthrough.