Generally a good idea. Doing science yourself and focusing on data instead of intuition seems likely to yield results but there are serious limitations.

Instead of Googling or asking someone else, we can apply the scientific method of actually looking at the data, and seeing what it says. Who are some rich people? How did they get rich? Where can we find information on rich people? The simplest technique, the one that I used when answering this question, is:

Google the list of the Forbes 400.

Go through each of the biographies for people on the list (or the first 200, or the first 100, or whatever is a large enough sample).

Write down how they

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