Seems like one trick is to see yourself as very advantaged relative to most other people. Then you're grateful instead of full of yourself. No one pulls themselves by their bootstraps alone. But only some people acknowledge the helping hands.
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Yes, this is actually the basic trick to what used to be the basic American life narrative. Dan McAdams has a great book about it called The Redemptive Self.
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