To luck into great things in your life, only to fuck up said things, once people who are better than you figure out your scam.
Man, I was hired sight-unseen for a great gig where people nurtured me because they felt sorry for me. I let it get to my head and once I was hired by an even bigger gig, they quickly figured out my scam and demoted me and cut my pay drastically like what they did to Stuttering John Melendez.