[fit2rule]

Maybe you're just too brilliant, and when people are around you the light shines brightly in their eyes, so they hide to shield themselves from it ..

[tekacs]

In a perverse way this is a succinct restatement of what others have said in sibling comments about the GP needing to make themselves more vulnerable (and less intimidating, when they are seeing successes most people never see).

Whether or not the sibling commenters are right, I won't opine on. :)