It must be very hard to be so fucking clever.

No.
Easy.
It just involved accepting that you do not know everything, and being prepared to learn from people with real knowledge, in this case historians.

Your immense ego and arrogance made you think you knew more than them!
"Those historians should know better" you said.

Of course they should Musket.
Don't they know what an important person you are?

You deserve this humiliation and I am treasuring it.