This is a problem of knowledge from successful people in general: if you are rich/healthy/long-lived/etc and this greatly stands out from the crowd - no matter what you will be carrying orally or printed - you will be listened to as a guru, cleaning your ears. And then to be surprised - "no yeah, he did everything like he did! Why did it happen?"

Yes, plus if some encouraged and dirty person says, "Don't go there, there is mud, I hardly got out (and the companions in general drowned) ", - he is looked at like a shit and persistently straw in the same mud, instead of looking for a path to circumvent, dry. Even if this guru honestly told how many of those who started with him and like him, in general, lived to the finish...