The pride worth keeping remembers both the work and the help.

Two versions of pride are available after something goes well. One requires the story to be entirely yours, which means quietly editing out the loan, the introduction, the person who covered for you, the luck. The other holds the effort and the assistance at the same time. The first is more flattering and much more fragile.

After your next good result, name one person out loud who made it possible, to them and to someone else. Notice that it takes nothing away from what you did. Pride that can hold both is steadier, and it keeps the people who helped willing to help again.