The danger with those success stories is that people get a false hype.
This happened to me also in the beginning. My first ever journey read was from some guy who was dropshipping. He only talked about the success and showed some screenshots.
As a noob I thought, dropshipping, this sounds pretty cool and easy, you don't have to own a physical inventory, just collect the money, then buy the items, ship them and $$$
I had a rude awaking when I started unprepared! Payment gateway issues, limitations with different things because I didn't had a VAT, PP that froze funds for the first 21 days, slow traffic etc.
Luckily for me I wasn't stupid enough to spend hundreds of dollars unprepared in FB ads. I paused everything, did more research, studied more and got back to it and also started other aspects of IM.
The last couple months all I did was study, register on several networks, read fail stories as you learn way more from those and now in the process of perfecting several niche sites, social media accounts, landing pages, logo's, setups etc.
This has cost me a couple hundred dollars, I got no RL social life ATM but it is worth it. Dedication and perseverance is key and now focusing heavily on SEO and I am absolutely positive it will be one of the few that is going to make it!
I didn't start a journey post because I probably forget about it as I am way too busy to study and help out a couple guys here.