This had me cracking up laughing. I added the bold for emphasis.

Avoiding Standard Error: Being a sloth and unreliable create such an asymmetrical negative payoff for what little upsides they bring you. So does fostering addiction or dependency, letting impulsions go unchecked, or being envious or resentful. So does not studying or taking seriously your susceptibility to the natural cognitive biases we have. If you set out to eliminate standard error, or things that can inherently cloud your judgement, you may realize the low-hanging fruit thats occasionally up for grabs.

Whole post is pretty good and insightful, there's examples of looking at non-mainstream ways people have broken into finance and Hollywood -

"Trailblazing" over at Sami Baqai's site