[tjic]

There is something called survivorship bias. IT means that the selection that you happen to see is the selection that is visible, because it accidentally survived.

Steve Jobs is great an inspiring, because he did X and Y and Z and never compromised his standards.

You know what? You happen to know of Steve Jobs because everything worked out well for him.

There may very well be 20,000 other people who refused to compromise their standards...and perhaps that strategy really sucks and the other 20,000 of them went bankrupt and are working at used car lots now.

"Never settling" sounds great.

I'm not 100% convinced that it is.

[jdbernard]

Agreed. Generally I believe in shooting high, because how do you know where the limits are if you don't hit them?

But... you have to be careful to stay in reality. Otherwise you end up tilting at the mills.