Substitute “day trading” for backgammon in this quote from Tim Holland in Jon Bradshaw’s classic book, “Fast Company:”

“Backgammon is a queer compulsive game. It’s the luck factor that seduces everyone into believing that they are good, that they can actually win. But that’s just wishful thinking. To become good, really good, at backgammon could cost several years of your time and twenty, maybe thirty thousand bucks [~$150,000 in 2021 dollars]. But only if you had a talent for the game to start with.”