You are falling prey to a fallacy. Suppose there is a competition (say a marathon) where one thousand people participate. The winner gets to choose a number bet

You are falling prey to a fallacy. Suppose there is a competition (say a marathon) where one thousand people participate. The winner gets to choose a number between 1 and one million and see if it matches a randomly generated one. If you win, it is true that not everyone could do what you did (you were the best runner out of a thousand). It also true that luck played a HUGE role (one in a million odds after putting yourself in the right place based on skill).