This is a guy who's going places academically in my field, a former student. Other colleagues have made jokes about they don't know how his head fits through the door sometimes :)
I'm awful at self-promotion, but this guy has no qualms about it. We probably lie at opposite extremes. Whenever he publishes something he posts about it on Facebook, if he wins an award, etc. I'd feel like a douche who was showing off or something if I did that.
Anyway, "I'm so humbled" seems like an appropriate response when given an award or something. It's not how you open a post that you yourself are making and then where you go on to wax poetic for a paragraph about how prestigious the award is.
Not the first person in academia I've encountered like this and I assume they exist in other walks of life too. Other than snickering behind their back they don't seem to pay any penalty for it, and there never seems to be a shortage of people willing to stoke their ego further.
I'm awful at self-promotion, but this guy has no qualms about it. We probably lie at opposite extremes. Whenever he publishes something he posts about it on Facebook, if he wins an award, etc. I'd feel like a douche who was showing off or something if I did that.
Anyway, "I'm so humbled" seems like an appropriate response when given an award or something. It's not how you open a post that you yourself are making and then where you go on to wax poetic for a paragraph about how prestigious the award is.
Not the first person in academia I've encountered like this and I assume they exist in other walks of life too. Other than snickering behind their back they don't seem to pay any penalty for it, and there never seems to be a shortage of people willing to stoke their ego further.