Fifty percent of people who got hit by busses last year were wearing Nikes.
So if I’m wearing Nikes does it mean I need to seriously consider switching brands so I don’t get hit by a bus?
No. There’s no actual relationship between busses and Nikes.
But we forget this most often when we’re looking for shortcuts.
We buy a better guitar to write better songs.
We write on yellow paper instead of white because the ideas come easier that way.
We wear the lucky boots on stage because, after all, good things happen since they’re the lucky boots.
All of these things might be true but one does not cause the other.
The things are true because that’s what happened before, not because that’s what is going to happen next.
If the better guitar, yellow paper and lucky boots come through for you and you like them, great. But you don’t need them as much as you think you do. Or at all.
(btw, I made up the first line about the fifty percent simply for the sake of illustration)