should we only learn from successful people?what every self learner needs to know about survivorship bias.

So for example, the first thing you do when you decide to break into tech as a product manager or UX designer, or a digital marketer is to research the people already in the field and learn from them.

Survivorship bias is assuming that these people are all the people who have made the journey of breaking into Tech in that particular field. While neglecting all the other people who tried, failed, and gave up, those who are still trying and failing, or those who have gone into other fields. Now, how you find these people is another challenge to solve.

It is very important to consider survivorship bias in all your decisions to help you “see what you can’t see.” Or, in other words, why are you doing everything right and still failing?

Even though Charity: Water is a very good role model and does tremendous work all over the world, focusing on and learning from them alone was a huge mistake.

I forgot about all the other charity groups that had started on the same journey, with the same strategies, and had failed or hadn’t grown as much as Charity: Water had.