Luck can make a bad choice look smart. Don’t build habits on it.

Outcomes are noisy. A careless move that happens to work feels like confirmation, and your brain files it as proof rather than as a near miss. Run the same reasoning enough times and the odds turn up eventually, usually at a worse moment. The quality of a decision lives in what you knew when you made it, not in how it landed.

Think of something that went well for you lately and ask honestly how much of it you controlled. Where the answer is not much, keep the result and drop the method. Judge the next call by the thinking, before you see the score.