So use it at research time, and hold it back at grant writing time! Have some mania of grandeur handy :)

I call it grantcaine.

> Intellectual humility doesnt get grants though.

Amen. In industry, intellectual humility doesn't help get promotions or get hired either.

It does if you work for people with the trait.

so it's dynamically unstable :P

The most ferociously negative interview feedback I've ever written in my life was for a person who I thought lacked humility. In summation, I believe my exact words were "I don't care if he's God's gift to software engineering, we should not hire him."