necessarily delusional

You need to be delusional to a certain degree.

Because if you weren’t you wouldn’t believe you could actually do it.

You aren’t supposed to say you’re special because nobody wants to hear that type of boasting.

But if you’re actually special then what are you supposed to do? Keep it a secret?

No. You keep it a delusion, somewhere between unreal and real.

So when you get there then you were right all along.

And if you don’t then you were just crazy.