[tkiolp4]

I think it’s a combination of:

- good parents (e.g., if one or both of your parents are engineers/scientists, you may get exposed to that world from an early age). They may have taught you to be curious, to tinker with things, to work smart

- good enough money. With this I mean your parents didn’t struggle to afford basic stuff like good education and spending time with you. They sent you to a non-shitty school/university. They could afford to buy you a computer when you were a kid. You ate good enough food (so you developed healthy)

- good enough genes. So, you don’t struggle understanding basic concepts others may have problems with

With all of the above, you then “only” need to get lucky once or twice in life to get an opportunity to apply everything you know/have so far. But even in that case, you may still not come up with something that others would call remarkable.

It’s hard and usually it’s not under our control.