Flaunting your wealth signals the exact opposite of what you think it does.
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Same for flaunting intelligence?
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Flaunting anything, really. If you truly exude something, it shows itself.
“He who reveals himself is not luminous;
He who justifies himself is not far-famed;
He who boasts of himself is not given credit;
He who prides himself is not chief among men,” says Tao Te Ching (ch. 24)
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In the I Ching there’s also a line going something like:
“The superior person shows his brilliance by keeping it veiled among the masses.”