My YouTube channel grew from 150 subscribers to over 16,000 subscribers in less than 3 months. Want to know how you can grow your channel too? \rbr\rbrUnfortunately, there is no simple formula. In f, there is little correlation between the quality of a video and the number of views that video will receive. Today, talented people are rewarded vastly differently for small differences in ability, meaning that part of becoming successful as a creator (artist) relies tremendously on chance. In this video, I talk about all the above along with the Matthew Effect, scalable and non-scalable careers, reward distributions, the economics of Hollywood, the Whitehall Studies, and more.\rbr\rbr--\rbr\rbr\rbr\rbr\rbr--\rbr\rbrSources:\rbrThe Black Swan: \rbr \rbrHollywood Economics: \rbrThe Matthew Effect in Science: \rbr \rbrWhitehall Study: \rbr \rbrSurvival in Academy Award–Winning Actors and Actresses: \rbr \rbrExperimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market: \rbr \rbrMusic:\rbrNowhere Land\rbrKevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)\rbrLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.