myths

Totally irrelevant to the conversation other than perhaps the myths/realities/realities that become myths/myths that become realities perhaps traverse time.

For centuries the cultural touchstones were all retellings of classical Greek or Roman myths, or Bible stories.

This is why you shouldn't compare yourself to the myths of other startup's success that are being written about by the press.

But what these myths don't take into account is how crucial timing is.

Most of the facts circling around (e.g Greeks average retirement age) are myths.

What I have learned from my second and successful startup is that entrepreneurs need to defy Silicon Valley VC myths.

This seems like a very sloppily put together list of myths, but I'll bite anyway.

You can find a sort of comfort in its 2000 year history, and in the myths/rituals of our past and the people who believe in them.

Creating group myths that we then perpetuate is a perfectly natural method of action.

Too many myths in IT that hold mainstream back.

I like how Pliny starts out with valid emotional perceptions of dolphins, transitions to a few believable factoids about them, and by the end of the article is basically just spreading myths and rumors.

It's possibly one one the widest-spread legal myths.

One thing about myths - Stephen Ambrose wrote a book "Nothing Like It In The World" about the building of the first transcontinental world.

I didn't see one chart or table in that entire paper; the myths & "wanted ads' show a clear bias; this merely propaganda.

I'll just refer to one of my comments from 3 years ago, because this "democracy vs republic" thing is one of my pet-hate American myths.

"especially because I teach American history in a way that is more inclusive and challenging of dominant myths than most of them were exposed to in high school." Sometimes I think that just what is politically correct has changed, and a different set of myths is now taught.