The Microsoft of Musicians: Taylor Swift
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Comments (5)
Leon Joffe
03 Apr 2024Good for her and her support team. She writes her own songs – that is a real talent. Personally, I must confess to never having heard one of her songs. But I’m not a teen girl with a smart phone. She is only 34. Long may she continue, and enjoy (hopefully with some privacy) the fruits of her labours
Mike Skipper
04 Apr 2024I agree. Talent in the music business is an essential ingredient but so is some luck and good management. What would have happened to Elvis without Col. Tom Parker or the Beatles without Brian Epstein?
Dominique
07 Apr 2024You’re so right Mike. And then there are those who succeed despite their management… the Brian Wilson story comes to mind
Ludwig
05 Apr 2024Nice one! I contend that the true test of whether you are a business or a person is whether you can deduct expenses before tax. 😁
> But for some reason, when we see remarkable success in a single person, we want to start talking about luck, chance and having “it”.
This made me think of a study (which I can’t dig up now, given the extremely vague search terms) which pointed out that people tend to ascribe their own success to hard work and their own failures to bad luck. However, when the same people looked at other people’s successes and failures, they ascribed it to good luck and not working hard enough, respectively. Funny human biases 🙂
I’ve always wanted to do a blog post on the return on investment in your kids and whether they can be seen as a “business” that hopefully pays dividends in the long run. How’s that for a challenge? 😂
Dominique
07 Apr 2024Look at you, Ludwig, trying to hoodwink me into doing your writing for you 😉
I really liked the point you made about human biases around success. Please do come back and let me know if you ever find that study.
There’s currently a viral TikTok clip going around with a fake story about a woman who sued her parents for conceiving her without her permission. Evidently, there seems to be some risk in your strategy of investing in children with the hope of long-term dividends.