There is no more delusional people than young artists.
I made a living as a photographer; mostly collegiate sports. You would be surprised at the number of people who approach you, telling you how good they are at their craft. Their stuff sucks. Their families tell them they are good. They aren’t.
Hitler was not very good.
Interesting. I taught a photojournalism class at SMU that was really a gimme class for athletes. I covered Mustang games and Cowboy games, also. This was in the mid-sixties and I used a Speed Graphic with a Sport Finder.
During a Navy-SMU game, I was on the sideline as a passing play came right at me. Fiddling around with the focus knob, I looked up to find a receiver about to plow into me. I started to back peddle but there was some dude right behind me.
The receiver clobbered us. Funny thing was, with all the padding and crash gear the Navy player was wearing, it didn’t hurt a bit.