I think the real lesson from this is not assuming you are really below average, but be aware of the people around you, of their ideas and ways of thinking, and

I think the real lesson from this is not assuming you are really below average, but be aware of the people around you, of their ideas and ways of thinking, and not dismiss them just because you think you're better than them, even if at first those ideas seems stupid. It is a really common problem with programming in my opinion. Nearly all the brilliant programmers i've met have a self esteem problem. They think they're really smarter than everybody else and that this makes it ok to dismiss most of other people's ideas, completely missing the fact that they would become a lot smarter if they paid closer attention. Now i guess this isn't a generality, and very relative to my own experience, but, i guess the very fact of doing somethings that almost nobody understands will make that bias grow over time, if you don't pay attention.