Winners are rare.

Unicorn startups, top sports players, successful Youtube creators, Nobel laureates. They are all rare.

By looking only at winners in order to learn from them, we are succumbing to the survivorship bias. We don't know of all the others that probably did a lot of the same things as the winners and sometimes better, only to not see the same outcomes. 

Winners inspire us. 

But following what they have done is no guarantee of success. 

They are paths of reasonable likelihood.

Ultimately, we have to chart our own paths to success.