Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.

Building something yourself creates a particular blindness: because you can trace every step you took, it becomes hard to see the steps that were simply there. The teacher who took an interest, the health that held, the door that happened to be open on the morning you knocked. None of that diminishes the work, which was real and hard. It means the account is incomplete, and an incomplete account makes a person less patient with those who did not manage it.

Add the missing entries to your own story. List three pieces of luck you have had, by name, and notice what it changes.