I’ve met a few people who walked that walk without being assholes … to others. They tended to have a fairly intense amount of self criticism/self hatred, though. That was more palatable than ego, to be sure, but isn’t likely broadly applicable.

Out of how many such people that you have met?

Well, yeah, I think it's a pretty socially unaware thing to say about yourself out loud, so that's a pretty strong filter there.

It's rather different for a community to say that's a standard they aspire to, which is a lot less ridiculously grandstanding of a position IMO.