Luck was a necessary ingredient, 100%.

But how many other people had similar luck and did nothing with it?

Luck is another word for opportunity. Some people are really good at leveraging opportunity for all it's worth. Most of us (myself very much included) are not.

Case in point: I'm the same age as Mark Zuckerberg. Many people say his age is why he was able to be at the right place at the right time to create Facebook. Much like they say about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and every other "self-made" billionaire.

But he still had to choose to do all the right things that I chose not to do in order to be able to experience that kind of luck.

At some point we gotta own up to our own role in guiding our lives.