I was speaking with a professional fighter the other day, and we drew a parallel between making it to the highest levels of professional fighting and building something new.
The stats are brutal – the odds of success are impossibly low. If you believed only the stats, you’d never step into the ring, or start building at all.
At the same time, the stats are useful. They help set realistic expectations, so you don’t hold yourself to an impossibly high bar or confuse difficulty with failure.
But stats are only one piece of the story. The rest of the story is written by those willing to take the shot.
