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>If he could do it in the situation he grew up in, anyone can.

This is a terrible mindset to have.

It's not as if the converse here is, "If a person doesn't succeed, then they did not deserve it." Is that the reason you have a problem with this mindset? I think of most alternatives as being fatalist / victim mentality, where you think you're an object that the universe does things to.

What mindset do you propose people have when they want to achieve something exceptionally difficult?

"If I can win the lottery, anyone can" indeed. Does that technically fall under survivorship bias? (Which isn't to say that Chan _just_ got lucky, just that it's a combination of luck, skill, upbringing, disposition, opportunity...)

You forgot the three most important things, which are 10,000 times more important than the ones you listed.

Hard work, hard work and hard work.

Necessary but not sufficient.

what about jackie chan's life story screams luck and people handing him things coz he was handsome to you? literally all he did was hard work

The part that screams luck is that for every hard working Jackie Chan there are ten -- or more likely a hundred -- people just as talented and working just as hard, who didn't become multimillionaire A-list celebrities.

Which is why the parent poster said hard work is necessary but not sufficient.

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