Poll: Do you see your life as a movie with inevitable success at the end?

If so, this might help explain why so many people pursue startups with low probability of success.

Egocentrism can perhaps skew your probability estimates significantly.

I have a problem with your poll: there won't be an end.

"Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident. The only earthly certainty is oblivion." Mark Twain

"Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character." Horace Greeley"

"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little." Plutarch

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor." Robert Louis Stevenson

"A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock, and assumes ten different positions in a day." Charles Caleb Colton

"Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors." Alan Paton

It's more like a video game with lots of mini-games to keep me pleasantly distracted.

Define success.

Or: What kind of movie is it?

Inevitable success? Death is an inevitable end to life. I see it more like fighting against something that you know you will lose to. Just winning some time before your ultimate loss.