[NeoBasilisk]

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

This is a terrible mindset to have.

[isoskeles]

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?

[Cpoll]

"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...)

[grecy]

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.

[sirmarksalot]

Necessary but not sufficient.

[kkarakk]

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

[MagnumOpus]

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.