Don't Mistake Accidental Success for Skill

Among the first generation of StarCraft, no one is properly active as a YouTuber or BJ. Game commentator Kim Jung-min says the biggest reason is lack of skill. When there are no competitors, your skill shines. But the moment everyone starts doing it, you can't survive without real skill. We need to reflect on whether we happened to occupy a spot early and enjoyed luck, or whether our skill was genuinely good.

Just looking at Why Original YouTubers Are Falling shows what situation you can end up in if you keep staying complacent while market competition intensifies.

One of the books that best describes this is Nassim Taleb's Fooled by Randomness

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Topics: success,Nassim Taleb
Category: Evergreen
Status: Ever/Branch

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