I believe that everyone is helped out by a hefty dose of luck across their lives - being in the right place at the right time often serves us well. Admittedly,

I believe that everyone is helped out by a hefty dose of luck across their lives - being in the right place at the right time often serves us well. Admittedly, it often comes down to hard work and preparation in the daily struggle, but that day where you needed to guess a few test answers and got them right, or you posted a job offer to a company you didn't think would notice you and happened to catch a random recruiters eye, or you happened to perform well on the exact day your boss wanted to promote somebody to an empty senior position they wanted filling. Life is a series of hard work, intermingled with sprinkles of luck, sometimes good, sometimes bad. True, having the IQ at a young age to go to a private school on a scholarship is fortunate and not the kind of advantage most people have, but I'm sure it still wasn't easy at some points, the author simply had the ability of self preservation to survive their trials.