The real sting here isn't the warning against complacency—it's that Kalam understands how desperately people want to diminish others. A single success can be forgiven as a fluke, but *sustained* performance exposes those who wish to dismiss you as small-minded. Consider the musician who releases one hit album and then faces skeptical reviews for the second: critics rarely admit they were wrong about dismissing the first record; instead, they reframe the narrative. What Kalam grasps is that vindication requires not just winning, but winning again, because the world believes in luck far more readily than it believes in merit.