Don't mess with the narrative. If hard work isn't the only thing that contributes to success you're going to destroy a lot of people's entire world view. But ye

Don't mess with the narrative. If hard work isn't the only thing that contributes to success you're going to destroy a lot of people's entire world view. But yes he was lucky. Just like the fact I'm a programmer right now has a lot to do with being lucky that my accountant father brought home an IBM PC from work in 1980. The choice to actually spend time learning how the computer worked, while an important choice, was secondary to the luck in being one of a fairly small number of people with a personal computer in 1980.