He Could Have Been a Painter
An amateur Austrian painter in Vienna who was selling tourists water colors of the city decided to up his game and become a professional. He applied twice to the city’s Academy of Fine Arts and got rejected both times. The Academy’s director encouraged him to switch to architecture which he was also interested in, but his lack of the proper academic training kept him from applying.
Instead he turned to politics and 37 years later at least 50 million people would be gone because they found him unfit to paint fruit or design apartment buildings…
Story credit: Reddit / Cinemaphreak