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Probability of success: False uniqueness bias

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It's very ideal to see that the path we choose, be it for success or anything else we try to achieve is unique, our own to follow. An extreme example I see is when a person models their own idea/business on someone else's yet have a false uniqueness bias . It made me wonder to what extent such a thing can be actually be true. This blog post is a naive mathematical approach I have adopted to dispel the fact that even our ways to success are in fact not as unique as we may feel they may be,such that at-least one other person apart from us is following it; thus, trying to prove the false uniqueness bias. Assuming the maximum number of unique path-ways to be successful is equal to the number of people in the world ,~7 billion (1 way to success for each person): \(\mu=7,000,000,000\) Let's take another assumption, that the path chosen is uniformly distributed across the \(\mu\) number of ways. Let \(success_i\) be the path of success the \(i^{th}\) person chooses,