I don't know if this was his original meaning but I know living on the east coast in a town with hardly any tech startup successes, finding experienced people w

I don't know if this was his original meaning but I know living on the east coast in a town with hardly any tech startup successes, finding experienced people who have had real success to learn from is extremely difficult and leaves me thirsty for knowledge. Thus when I spend time traveling and learning from great people in places like SF and then come back here, I often feel like I "know too much" and need to be challenged because I can't seem to find fault in my own thinking. I'm deathly afraid of falling into the same mindset, whatever that may be, that caused all the startups around me to fail so I have this egotistical attitude at times when I'm not around people who challenge me. I'm learning and trying to grow past that faulty thinking but it is tough. Maybe this is partly what he was alluding to.