If you are doing well in your life/career, thank the environment. Thank your company/project, your boss, your teammates, your family, and even the place you live in. Superstars can just as easily be massive failures in environments that don’t suit them. The flip side could also be true. Folks struggling to perform can achieve huge shifts by a simple change in the environment as long as the reason for failure isn’t an attitude problem.
Sports is an arena where we see this so often. Some truly extraordinary players go through mediocre seasons at clubs that don’t suit them and go back to being extraordinary at environments that work for them.
The learning here is that you aren’t as important a factor in both your successes and failures as you probably think you are. There are many factors at work. That doesn’t mean you have no impact. You do.. but it’s smaller than you think.
So, don’t drink the kool aid and don’t take the anti depressants either. It’s all a game and the real gift is being given the opportunity to play. The better you are at playing the game with a consistently great attitude, the chances are higher that you will have the opportunity to pick environments where you have a higher chance of success.
A Learning a Day 