"Good work is not done by 'humble' men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate a little both the importance of his subject and his importance in it." – G. H. Hardy
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This quote is all the more remarkable considering who said it and when. Even now, being boastful is a huge social error among educated English people, and it would have been even more so in 1940 when Hardy was writing. So clearly this was something he thought very important.
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Yet I don’t see you boasting enough
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Even more so for founders
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The test of the professor: to foster a sense of agency, not ego, towards the subject. The test of the student: to recognize and embrace the difference.
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Increases until institutionalized. I.e. in a university. where Prof becomes a meme host along a new generation of students who in return...
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Being (socially) humble is just countersignaling. Boasting is seen as an indicator of the need to compensate for the lack of self-assurance; understatement is the way of someone who does not need public approval.
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Boasting that gets noticed seems like a poor signal. Successful exaggeration of importance (what Hardy seems to be saying) means the listener doesn't realize it.
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My experience is somewhat different: I’ve found that corporate America (including startups) reward people who are boastful, while in Asia this behavior is discouraged.
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Keynes and Churchill were both pretty good at it.
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1940, 1840, 1740 or 2040 it will always be true.
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