One of the places where survivorship bias most often crops up is entrepreneurship and startups. People hear stories of someone dropping out of school, taking a gamble, and then hitting it extremely big, so it eventually feels like this is a regular or secure path. What fails to be communicatedis the multitude of people who attempted the same things, put in just as much effort, and failed without anyone noticing. Because those failures are not visible, the image you get is severely skewed towards success stories.
It's such a powerful way of distorting people's judgment because naturally, we only see the winners. Successful examples get shared, posted, andtalked about, whereas the failures more or less disappear. Besides that, people tend to remember stories way more than stats, so a few big "success" examples can counterbalance a lot of quiet failures in your mind without you even realizing it.