Ask any book publisher and they'll tell you that success stories sell. But those success stories often paint a warped picture of entrepreneurs as being superhumans with X-ray-like vision into the future. I can tell you not only from having been an entrepreneur for the past 30 years but also in working with hundreds of successful entrepreneurs that much of the mythology we build around entrepreneurship is a false narrative that doesn't help those who are just getting started. This false story is what I call the backstory of entrepreneurship.
