It's funny how great people look, in hindsight, like they always had a clear line of sight from where they were to where they ended up. But real people, in real time, mostly have a foggy soup of partial information, limited self-knowledge, and three vaguely plausible next actions. From the outside, we compress their life into a clean causal chain: trait → decision → success. From the inside, it probably felt more like: mood → guess → try-not-to-screw-this-up.