[rirarobo]

The lone hero/savior/prodigy archetype is also just an easy narrative to sell, especially to anyone aspiring towards success who would feel inspired or vicariously validated by such a story.

There are countless articles that romanticize entrepreneurs who were child chess champions, or rubik's cube solving geniuses, who dropped out of college, or were academics who were under-acknowledged, only to build it all by themselves and hit the jackpot. At least that's how the story often goes. It almost seems like a sort of modern mythology, one that taps into the American dream that so many yearn for.