The real wisdom here isn't cheerleading for ambition—it's Jobs's observation that sanity itself can be a liability. Most rational people see the gap between their current circumstances and world-changing outcomes and sensibly conclude the distance is insurmountable. The "crazy" person simply refuses that calculation. When SpaceX engineers insisted reusable rockets were possible while every aerospace company dismissed the idea as wasteful fantasy, they weren't more talented than their competitors; they'd simply exempted themselves from the rule that says *that's impossible*. The paradox is that this kind of productive delusion often requires both imagination *and* the stubborn willingness to ignore expert consensus—a combination so rare that when it appears, it does remake things.