You Credit Your Wins to Skill and Your Losses to Bad Luck

Land a client and it's because you're good at your job. Lose one and it's because the market shifted, the timing was wrong, or the client was impossible. Notice the pattern: success gets attributed to you, failure gets attributed to everything else. It runs the opposite way for the people around you — their wins look lucky, their losses look earned.

This isn't dishonesty, it's a default setting of the mind. The fix is a small, uncomfortable habit: after any outcome, name one thing luck or circumstance contributed to a win, and one thing you actually controlled in a loss.