Allow’s get something right: this isn’t a quit-your-dreams tirade.
It’s an authorization slip to quit melting years on a path that statistically will not repay, and to reroute your talent where the upside-to-stress ratio is much better.
The misconception says entrepreneurship is the supreme flexibility.
The data says it’s a power-law grind where a small minority capture nearly all the gains, a large middle treads water for years, and the majority quietly leave, broke or wore out.
The form of the curve hasn’t transformed: Survival prices hover where they have actually been for a years, earnings focuses at the top, and opportunity cost maintains climbing up.
The 96 % here is not an insult.
It’s a diagnosis of fit, timing, and danger.
Most people ought to quit full time creator setting and select roles that provide upside, finding out, and optionality– without the financial and emotional trauma.
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