Success imho is the art of not fucking up any single aspect of what you&#x27;re doing, plus doing some aspect really well. You can have a &quot;lifestyle&quot; (meaning you do pretty well, but not exceptional) job&#x2F;business&#x2F;... by simply not fucking up any of it.<p>Grit is like this : fuck it up and you&#x27;re dead in the water, but you&#x27;ll be fine at &quot;normal&quot; grit if you excel somewhere else. Exceptional grit is useless, counterproductive even, when for example market fit is not there at all. Or when the required knowledge simply isn&#x27;t there.<p>The one exception I&#x27;ve seen in practice is that on rare occasions a particular combination of skills was a necessity to achieve exceptional success. But it sort of looks like equivalent to winning the lottery. It&#x27;s never an obvious combination of skills that works like this, it&#x27;s something stupid that you wouldn&#x27;t normally combine, and that&#x27;s exactly why it works. But there are a huge number of possible combinations, most are not worth anything exceptional.