Congratulations for your hard work and achievements :) I presume you know other people with your background that haven't managed to achieve this, do you have a

Congratulations for your hard work and achievements :) I presume you know other people with your background that haven't managed to achieve this, do you have any insight into what the differences are? Innate abilities? specific values? good luck? - I can imagine the general differences, but the specifics are really interesting to me.