One downside of writing a lot is that sometimes you miss the mark. I think that happened here: Let’s Find Out. Not that I was wrong per se, but I failed to capture the idea I was trying to get across. What I should have written about instead was the relationship between courage, conviction, and success.
I learned from gambling in Las Vegas that the smartest gamblers frequently are not the richest. Most of them have comfortable middle class assets, but very few are millionaires. Now, you might ask how I know these were the smartest guys at the card table. But it was easy to tell: they were convinced of incredibly smart things and happy to tell you about it. Continue reading