> Is there an answer to that humility gained by being an expert in one field being translated to better self-assessment in other fields? I think that often the

> Is there an answer to that humility gained by being an expert in one field being translated to better self-assessment in other fields? I think that often the opposite is true: people who become experts in one domain often assume that they are automatically experts in completely unrelated fields. I suspect that this is the cause of "Nobel disease": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease