People usually under-sell themselves. You see it also at job-interviews for example. When someone's good at something and gets notified by it they're like : ahhh.. but it's nothing special... , no.. it's nothing special for you but for others it is! Don't sell yourself short.
And people are quick to thinking that they are really over-exaggerating when they acknowledge that they are indeed a good person, or indeed have a amazing skill etc etc. while in fact, for the outside world an acknowledgement like that is really not exaggerating at all.
Good post!
Oh, I bet you see that a lot in job interviews. How awkward when we need to sell our abilities and yet this background discomfort kicks in making us play things down at the same time. Thank you for commenting.