Education won’t help.

Too many people rely on education for career advancement. And I get it. I do. My parents — especially my father — used education as a social lift to build the life they have today. For them, education was a practical way to get out of their immediate environment into a better world they imagined for themselves. If it weren’t for Stanford MBA, my father would probably still be operating a sports bar called Doping on the outskirts of Moscow.

But then, in some fields, and some circumstances, education is overrated. People use education as an excuse not to do the work or take risks. They assume…