The moment you start thinking you got there alone is the moment you start drifting.

Success has a way of editing its own history. The coaching, the lift to practice, the teacher who stayed late, the covered shift: all of it compresses into a story about your own effort. That story is pleasant and inaccurate, and it cuts you off from the people still helping. Isolation usually starts as a flattering misunderstanding.

Write down the five people without whom this year would have gone differently. Tell one of them this week, specifically, what they did. Keep the list somewhere you will see it when you next feel self-made.