Credit you didn’t earn turns into expectations you can’t meet.

Praise sets a level, and the level sticks whether or not you can reach it again. Letting people think you did something you did not do buys a good afternoon and quietly signs you up for the next task at that standard, with nobody to hand it back to. The gap arrives later, usually at a bad moment.

When credit comes at you slightly wrong, correct it on the spot in one light sentence. Say which part was yours and who did the rest. It keeps what people expect of you roughly equal to what you can actually do.