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Yeah...it's akin to saying "I believe that [extreme outliers happen], then [they define the general rule]." Their outcome is wonderful, and I'm happy for them, but it's so many sigmas from the norm they may as well be Toyota consultants from the 90s.

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He's not saying everyone will be successful, he simply means there's nothing innately special about people who are successful and you shouldn't rule yourself out because you don't think you're [insert adjective here] enough. You need to be a moderately smart person who works hard, follows the right formula and gets a little lucky. You might still fail but it's definitely worth a shot.

"it's so many sigmas from the norm they may as well be Toyota consultants from the 90s"

I am not catching the reference. Can you explain or link to something I can read. Are you talking about Kaizen?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Sigma

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