I absolutely loathe the state of the world where you have to be loud and attract attention to yourself in order to succeed. I know it's true, I know why it's tr

I absolutely loathe the state of the world where you have to be loud and attract attention to yourself in order to succeed. I know it's true, I know why it's true, but something inside me just wants to die when I think about less-skilled people getting better positions/wages than me, just because they self-promote. Maybe that's egoistical of me. Maybe my work simply isn't good enough to speak for itself - or maybe I am not good judge of other people's skills. Maybe others are better than me, and I'm just not paying attention. But then, articles like this come up, where people explicitly admit to being loud and attracting attention for the sake of being loud and attracting attention... I simply hate promoting myself. It's an irrational hate, and I don't think I'll ever get over it.