The story of a journey should leave room for the people who helped it happen.

Stories about how something was achieved compress toward one person, partly because that shape is easier to tell and partly because we like it. The lift at the right moment, the colleague who covered, the teacher who noticed something early: all of it drops out in the retelling. That version is not only unfair, it is inaccurate, and it teaches whoever hears it that they ought to be managing alone. Nobody arrives unaided.

Next time you tell how something happened, keep two of those people in the account. Name them where others can hear, and tell them afterwards that you did.