[izaidi]

I'm sure the author knows what she's talking about and to some extent I agree with her, but humbleness is a useful quality too, in gifted people especially. Being skeptical about your own innate gifts makes you work harder in applying them, which elevates the quality of what you produce. When you start to believe you're better than "normal" people and you can do no wrong thanks to your awesome superpowers, that's usually when the wheels come off the wagon.

Low self-esteem is a drag but I often produce my best work when I feel like I'm a fraud and I have to convince myself that I'm not.

[brentr]

The more you learn, the more you begin to realize how little you know.

Understanding something deeply enough to explain it to others yet never having contributed something unique to the field does not make you a fraud, it makes you someone who understands something deeply.