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Published 16:59 14 Jul 2019 BST
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The recent Women's World Cup saw a similar phenomenon, with the men who haven't played football since they were 16 stating confidently that they and a team of their peers would be quite easily able to defeat the professional footballers they were watching on the television. They would, of course, be battered.
This goes back to the "playing your very best" caveat in the YouGov poll. There are unfortunately a large and increasing swathe of men who believe that they - at their best - can do anything.
Everyone needs a degree of this if they want to succeed at anything in life, but it must be based on something - a desire to improve, a desire to learn, anything. This is belief based on a bloated sense of importance. It's deluded.
Reality is hard. It forces you to confront uncomfortable truths such as the fact that Serena Williams would batter you and that, perhaps, Brexit won't be as easy as you think. Rather than confront the reality in which we live, an increasing number of Brits, from armchair tennis pros to the man who will soon be PM, have decided to move to one where everything's fine, and you can do anything just so long as you believe.Comment

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