An actor I know is a dimwit who can't count higher than the fingers on his hands. But once he gets on stage, the audience goes so wild, you'd think the house would split in two.
The advantage of a ridiculously ambitious goal is that it sets the bar very high so even in failure it may be a success measured by the ordinary.
I stand up for what I believe in and a lot of the time that can be against what the norm is or what people expect of me.