Chance humbles anyone who believes every outcome was personally engineered.

Believing you engineered every result is a comfortable story that reality eventually audits. Chance is always present in outcomes, and the person who takes full credit for the good ones has quietly agreed to take full blame for the bad ones too. Humility is not modesty here; it is accuracy about how much you were ever steering.

Before your next confident forecast, name two things that would have to go your way that you do not control. Say them out loud. It costs nothing and it keeps your plans honest.