In daily life, because triumph is made more visible than failure, you systematically overestimate your chances of succeeding. As an outsider, you succumb to an illusion, and you mistake how minuscule the probability of success really is
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Rolf Dobelli talks here about Survivorship Bias, how it affects our decision making and actual percentage of success.
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