This is a discouraging but not surprising bit of news:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/narcissists-do-better-on-job-interviews-...
Some choice quotes:
People who are natural self-promoters are going to have an advantage and modest people will be at a disadvantage,” Paulhus said in an interview with CBC's Lang & O'Leary Exchange.
That's obvious, but those of us who question everything we (think we) know (i.e. natural skeptics) are really at a disadvantage in the interview.
When narcissists were interviewed by someone who knew more than they did or who called them on their knowledge, they become even bigger braggarts.
Damn, I like to follow what the best of the best are saying and doing (i.e. RhodiumToad on Freenode's #postgresql channel) or Jamie Zawinski (http://www.jwz.org/about.html), and when I see them "in action" I become overwhelmed by how much I don't know.
Yet by most people's standards, I'm quite a computer expert. I guess it's relative but I compare myself to those better than myself. It's the only way to keep learning.
Plus, I suffer from learning something, feeling a burst of happiness at it, thinking it over, realizing that every answer raises more questions, then feel dumber than before because I now have a bunch of questions that are unanswered.
*sigh* Oh, to be more narcissistic and / or sociopathic. Life would be easier and I'd have a great job (even if, as with many of them, I weren't good at it). I guess that's holding me back - I'd consider it a personal failure if I had a job that I wasn't very good at.