...Come to think of it, I knew a student once, a long while ago. [not necessarily his student, just a student.]

He couldn't do anything without downplaying it, talking about how other mages could achieve a similar result in however many different ways. Not an ounce of common sense to his name, this kid. Reckless, too. But he wasn't stupid by any means; he just had to learn what only he was capable of and celebrating it instead of measuring himself next to everyone else and suffering with what he thought he lacked. I'm sure he didn't find it all that easy, clueless as he was, but it came down to adjusting how he saw things.