Look, successful people will misattribute their success to bullshit like positive visualization & following their passion, etc.
Funny though, how successful people like moguls & industrialists fail to mention factors like their:
* inheriting start-up capital from some relative that built his fortune from exploiting natural resources, paying people as little as they could get away with without being subject to costly regulations, and taking a Sun Tzu approach to competition. From this follows being able to fail & correct mistakes without missing a meal, not to mind earn advanced education, etc.
The analogy to bodybuilding success is that those with genetic prowess, reinforcement from early successes and resistance training technical guidance & motivation, the free time to spend in the gym and funds to spend on decent quality food, the basic intellect & personality to at least apply Occam's razor (keep it simple, stupid) & to try to best their counterparts at something they're able to excel at, often underestimate the factors outside of their control that shaped their reality. It's called the fundamental attribution error.
* compulsive competitive nature & kindred energy, feeling like their perfectly simple, moderately-high effort over very long time-frames is not relevant because everyone they know does the same basic shit.
The analogy to bodybuilding success is that those with high levels of energy that they put into "only" training 4 days weekly, with effort but not particularly strenuous or sustained, but have just been doing this forever like their gym friends, tend to totally underappreciate the importance of this versus the frail kid asking what they do that's so special whose been into bodybuilding for almost a year and who grew up on computer games & potato chips until he got interested in women after a lucky tryst.
* in middle adulthood, this entrepreneur has softened. They now follow something like Buddhism and talk about mindfulness. They medidate. They do this because they have exhausted their ambitious drive for success, reached it, and now, believe that these new tenets that they've discovered are the "secret." When they are asked to speak publicly at business events, galas, or universities, they spread their newfound gospel of sorts, because they've come around to happiness being the meaning of life, and not money or professional success.
The analogy to bodybuilding is that AAS are a factor, often considered that "secret" sauce, that usually comes into play post-adolescence, and so, they're usually the most novel & certainly exciting factor to a young man whose been lifting weights for the better part of a decade already, because they cause gains unlike that which has been experienced for some time... years. Speaking to him after discovering this new powerful class of drugs that gives him things that he values, like strength & size, perhaps admiration from those he has befriended in his bodybuilding pursuits, will certainly be likely to yield a frank excitement about the power of AAS.
