“I’ve never done anything that wasn’t obvious, and I didn’t know why other people didn’t do it,” he said. “I’ve never thought the things I did were so extraordinary.”
This is typical of truly great people, and there are very few great people responsible for actually changing the world. He had a lot of smarts, and some great genes.
That part's easy, we're all doing that a lot these days. The hard part is being constantly told by folks reading the daily press that 2 + 2 = 5.