[davidw]

"I see nothing wrong with focusing on studying the best--the ones that made it. Those are the people to emulate."

What if the failures are doing a lot of the same things? You just can't get a complete picture without examining the failures, too.

It's probably better to be optimistic, because being realistic is likely to simply be depressing, but still, for those curious about the system as a whole, you can't just look at success.