he's excellent at everything...as it shows in his graphs...
C'mon, give the guy a break. When you apply for a job, do you write on you cover letter that you are just like any other human, that your flying is average and that sometime you feel life is SO unfair to you? Or do you bump you own PRs a bit?
He tried an unorthodox approach, therefore he's entitled of some extra "poetic license", IMHO.