go to a casino, throw your life savings on one number. if you win, tell everyone how you gave it all and you manifested it by pure will. if you lose, nobody will ever hear from it.
in addition, pg is so heavily biased on this and should never be taken as gospel.
If only people tried for real.
In my experience people most likely to write this are trust fund babies who neglect to mention they're getting essentially a stipend from their parents to take care of all their life necessities, so they can "try for real". Whatever that means.
20 years ago I would have agreed with you, but today I don't.
On that point, I'll agree with you. 20 years ago I would have said you're flat out wrong, but today, I'd say you have a valid point in that too many people give up after the first few failures (or never even try enough to get to a failure point)
Pretending like all 8 billion people have the same opportunity to be the next Jeff Bezos/Elon/Jobs is misleading.
My advice for the 99% is to the best you can and foster family and friend relationships, work less, and get out of the mindless consumerist game.
If you personally want to be an employee, fine, but a cultural value for entrepreneurs is a good thing to have and should be supported.