I had a friend once who was very smart. He was always starting new projects to make money, and always quit at the first or second obstacle.
In the back of my head I want to tease out how much of Beso's success is due to aptitude, how much is due to work, how much is due to privilege, and how much is due to luck, and how much is due to ruthlessness.
This might be a futile exercise, all told, but I do think all of those factors have played into his success.
And I wonder how his success and the other factors compound in the perception people have of him.
And even then they will most likely fail. So they need a lot of luck, too.
Succeeding isn't merely lightning striking. There's a lot of perseverance and work involved. Just like nobody rides a bike successfully the first time they get on it. You have to keep getting on it until you learn.