The best leaders admit who they learned it from. Passing credit back is how mentoring keeps going.

Nobody arrives at competence alone, and people who pretend otherwise break a chain that was working. Naming who taught you does two things: it tells the next person that being helped is normal, and it makes the one who helped you more likely to keep helping others. Pretending you worked it all out yourself quietly ends the supply.

Say the name out loud the next time somebody compliments something you are good at. Then do one round of it yourself, with whoever is currently where you used to be. That is the entire mechanism, repeated.