Absolutely. But some of us have a lot more chances to walk through a door. I've written about this as it applies to my own life: https://medium.com/@TamarEGranor/from-patterns-and-puzzles-to-programming-60ac6ae46c73#.w04zrojlz. But that essay leaves out lots of other "doors" that came my way. For example, my first non-babysitting summer job came through a friend of my parents. Edited out of that essay was the pull-out program in 4th grade where the HS Math teacher father of a friend taught us some set theory. Etc., etc., etc. Because I was born who I was, when I was, where I was, my life has included a lot more of those doors than other people's lives have.

So, are you saying that your success cannot be attributed to your own hard work? Do you believe that other people's actions and luck were a more important contributing factor to your success than your own actions?