Reminds me of the story that Paul Allen recounted about Bill Gates going off to Harvard rather pumped up about his abilities relating to math (Gates has said he

Reminds me of the story that Paul Allen recounted about Bill Gates going off to Harvard rather pumped up about his abilities relating to math (Gates has said he considered wanting to teach math as a profession when he was in high school) and then realizing he wasn't good enough at it to keep up with the elite math students there. That to keep up with them you'd need to be among the best in the field and even if he was good, he wasn't math-genius level good.