Creative fields are the only places where people expect elite performers to pretend they don’t know they’re elite. Great athletes can feel like they’re the best and it’s all good. But society wants top of their field creatives to do the whole “idk I’m ok I guess 🤷🏻♂️ , probably just got lucky” brand posturing. It’s fake modesty so that people like you more. Newsflash tho, every creative you’ve studied privately thinks they are great cuz they HAVE to. Conviction is the fuel. The audience’s discomfort says more about their relationship to ambition and confidence than about the claim itself.