Florence Foster Jenkins: What Happens When Confidence Has No Anchor
Florence Foster Jenkins couldn't carry a tune, but she had money and surrounded herself with people who never told her the truth. She sold out Carnegie Hall in two hours with a two-month waiting list, then attempted Mozart's Queen of the Night to bursts of laughter covered by applause. This is the Peel Fallacy taken to its logical extreme: believe in yourself with no grounding in reality and you get not confidence, but catastrophic delusion.
