These examples of what I would term “random failure” were incredibly unnerving to me and contributed to a sense I had of myself (and probably still do have) that every success I had prior to that moment was proven, by that moment, to have been a sham, and a fake, and a hoax on everyone including me, which led me to the inevitable question, “Why don’t you just admit that you are of limited intelligence, even less vision, and give up?” For some reason, I didn’t.
