Every now & then I look around and recognize that I'm probably at a slightly better place in life than most people I know, but then I remember that I probably also don't know anything about anything, so what does that tell me about most people

Everyone seems to have a different definition about "what works", and they double down on it even when it makes little sense to everyone else. So almost always there's a hidden factor that we like to call "luck" when we tend to underestimate the outcome and "hard work" when we overestimate it – But fact is there seems to be little correlation between inputs & outputs of most people that "made it"