I am a great success

Success gets measured against strangers, which is a rigged comparison, because you see their output and your own process.

Try a different denominator. Find the version of you from five years ago and hand them your ordinary Tuesday — the software you now use without thinking, the conversation you'd once have gone home shaking after. Most of it would look like somebody else's life.

That progress went unrecorded because it arrived as habituation, which is silent by design. The things you got good at stopped being noticeable at the exact moment you got good at them.