Everyone I've ever met who said this was a better engineer than they thought. They seemed to look at the very best engineers, see a difference between themself

Everyone I've ever met who said this was a better engineer than they thought. They seemed to look at the very best engineers, see a difference between themself and that person, and think they weren't that good. I think there is also some kind of survivorship bias - you don't hear from the people who tried it and failed.