[mygo]

> If you had told highschool me something like that would happen, I never would have believed it :)

I find it interesting that a common story of people who did big things is that nobody would have predicted they'd end up doing the things they did.

Reminds me of my own reflections on things that I have done that I never would have expected I'd be doing. As well as this recent article by the creator of Entrepreneur magazine [0].

"literally nobody, myself included, would have once predicted that I’d be running a magazine called Entrepreneur"

[0]: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/331221

[ddxxdd]

Someone needs to apply Bayes theorem to determine if not believing in oneself is truly a prerequisite to achieving greatness.

[zdragnar]

Is it "not believing in oneself" or is it "life takes unexpected turns and you don't always end up where you thought you would"?

[mygo]

I don't think it's about not believing in oneself. I actually think the opposite is a requisite -- that you must believe in yourself, even if you don't know where you're heading. Or even if you know where you're heading, and it's not the path that you had originally charted. You can't see 20 moves ahead, but you know a good next move.

[tuesdayrain]

I don't think people would even try something in the first place if deep down they didn't believe it could work out.