ah the irony of career advice. we only care to hear advice from successful people but the successful people are exceptions.

this is why I focus on generalized principles in my writing. all personal success is anecdotal but we should not let that stop us from trying to discover generalizable truths by induction and deduction.

But his "highly unusual" success is lighting that strikes 5 times in a row. Maybe he's onto something. His lighting strikes consistently in completely different domains too.