But the problem with this approach is that in real life the majority of people are not like this. Many people are vastly overconfident and arrogant in their skills, I've had encounters with very good developers who simple refused to even hear an alternative solution or who did not do the most basic stuff to verify certain things before starting implementing them even though someone who had tons of experience in a certain niche compared to him told him to.

So a truly great engineer also needs to be arrogant/assertive/loud as that is the only way to fight other arrogant people. The "quiet confident" engineers opinion will be overruled by loud incomptent engineers.

Foundations of Arrogance: A Broad Survey and Framework for Research - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8101990/

Evidence for arrogance: On the relative importance of expertise, outcome, and manner - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5500344/

I would not call Linus Torvalds or Steve Jobs or Henry Ford humble...

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