I think you're demonstrating part of one of the exact systems of repression that he's talking about, perhaps without knowing it.

From another one of his posts:

"There's some sort of misplaced humility that is injected into us by our educational system. Or maybe it is some sort social stigma attached to the braggart or overacheiver. "

Having experienced a lot of the misplaced humility injected by the educational system, I've been all too happy (and dramatically better off) the more of it I am able to get rid of.