People actively look to credit other people's success to anything but their work all of the time. Just this week, such a webpage was heavily discussed on Hacke

People actively look to credit other people's success to anything but their work all of the time. Just this week, such a webpage was heavily discussed on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6546325 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6546325 The submission attributes Bill Gates's success first and foremost to his grandparents and parents. This is part of a very common pattern of attributing success to everything but work. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5204329 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5204329