> "one of the reasons" and some of the others were having the opportunity at the right time, making the right connections at the right time, and the other hund

> "one of the reasons" and some of the others were having the opportunity at the right time, making the right connections at the right time, and the other hundreds of things that went right for you and might not have. Not crediting at least some of your success to random factors that you had no control over is a mistake, too. There are people out there who worked as hard as you but failed because of those random factors.