Obsession with R𝙚𝒂𝙨𝒐𝙣𝒔 Makes People Suspend Rationality

Randomness and the Adoration of Accidental Mentors

Taking treacherous risks is a character trait of those you would never take guidance from. Entertaining, but hardly counsel worth abiding by.

But when someone wins financially we forget all this, along with the 99.9% who, with the identical hazardous character trait, failed miserably.

Like magic, the winner takes on sage- like prestige. Society masks their inherent loser nature and dresses it with. the veil of celebrity. Overnight this individual knows something we do not.

Academic business programs study these individuals, book shelves stack their writings, and interview platforms grant them the mic.

A whole world focused intently on what is, by any objective measure, a group of accidental mentors. People who share the same traits as those whose advice we rationally avoid.

The human obsession with 𝒓𝙚𝒂𝙨𝒐𝙣𝒔 has a way of making people suspend rationality.