Success is when not a single one of the people you respect the most thinks of you as a fraud –including yourself.
(More lessons from the UCL episode aside from mob terror.)
One reason to avoid titles, prizes, etc. things not organic: I surmise that it makes people more, not less reputationally fragile and vastly more conscious of it. From my own experience with fights, winners of the Nobel (or rather pseudoNobel) in economics are easy to terrorize, much easier than ordinary academics. I had direct fights with 4 of them and observed/discussed with another 3: total insecurity, loss aversion.
This is not good for the person, and not good for research as people are scared to take risky positions.

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