convincing yourself that you were born special is one of the easiest and most straightforward ways to get your dopamine pump to spit out the goods despite all the other signals telling you your social status is low, and ofc a protagonist born special is a way of selling this
maybe for the narrative, not for the reader if all that differentiates the protagonist is effort and luck then there's nothing to make the reader feel like they're anything but as unimportant as they appear to be, which is below the levels we're evolved to commit suicide at
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At the risk of over-generalizing, there's also a train of Christian thought that indicates that if you're a good person/God deems you worthy good things will come to you (good health, riches, etc). I feel like this particular trope reflects this.
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Typically protagonists who turn out to have inborn magic or a royal position are also good people (or are intended by the author to be). I can't speak for non-Western stories, but I think here it's a form of wish-fulfillment also shaped by the dominant cultural narrative.
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