Being lucky doesn’t erase your work. Working hard doesn’t erase your luck. Be honest about both.

Most outcomes have two causes and people usually report only one. Claiming it was all effort flatters you and misreads the help you had; claiming it was all luck sounds modest and is equally untrue, since you still had to do the work when the chance turned up. Holding both in view is just accuracy.

Next time something goes well, name one piece of luck out loud: a coach who stayed late, a sibling’s old textbook, landing in the right class. Keep the credit for your own part too. When something goes badly, run the same test, because bad luck deserves the same honest mention.