[paltz]

I felt good and I felt like, hey I'm smart enough. I can do this.

What a shock.

[lelio]

I felt good and I felt like, hey I'm smart enough. I can do this.

An interesting American Psychological Association paper on that very subject entitled
Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments

[Go Gordon]

"But the first thing I ever wrote that got published, my Russian friend in the Northeast got killed with alcohol. "

This guy still can't write a complete and proper sentence. Some rising start....