That&#x27;s mystical BS thinking, from too many self-help books.<p>Most succeses had been a combination of being born at the right place and time, to the right parents, going to the right school and meeting the right people. Most of those are heavily determined by the past beyond one&#x27;s control -- and others are semi-random.<p>Then there&#x27;s talent for business and determination -- but it&#x27;s only survivorship bias that doesn&#x27;t let us see that lots of people who didn&#x27;t get to have FB also had equal talent for business and determination, or even more than Mark.<p>Even a &quot;perfect&quot; Mark could have been hit by a bus before the success, or had a dehabilitating illness, etc -- and then your &quot;magical unicorn&quot; admiration would go to whoever else got to be succesful at the time, while Mark still be the same person (only unsuccesful).