1When something good comes out of a conversation you started, say plainly that you started it. Chance may have put the person there. You were the one who spoke.
One young woman asked a contact, in passing, whether a gallery owner needed any help. The question turned into an application and then an internship, and she described the whole thing as luck. The asking was not luck. If you hand your successes to circumstance and keep your failures for yourself, this is the habit worth interrupting, one instance at a time.
Islamic evidence
If you do good, openly or in secret (Quran 4:149). A quiet question nobody witnessed still counts as something you did.
“If you do good, openly or in secret, or if you pardon something bad,then God is most forgiving and powerful”
Qur'an 4:149
Psychological evidence
Follow up studies of cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety related disorders find gains still present a year and more later, although the advantage over comparison conditions narrows with time. So the small approaches you make now are not one off events, they tend to keep paying out. What follow up data cannot say is how much of that comes from any single step you took.
Eva A.M. van Dis; Suzanne C. van Veen; Muriel A. Hagenaars; Neeltje M. Batelaan; Claudi Bockting; Rinske M. van den Heuvel (2019). JAMA Psychiatry · doi
Review detail
Why it works. Crediting yourself with the step you did take is what makes the next one thinkable.