[Glenn]

No one is denying that in a fantasy world created to your specifications, you would be the alpha-male. I have personally found it better to concentrate on the real world, however. Unfortunately, we live in one collective reality. If you want respect, you have to accomplish things within that reality. In our current reality, you are a successfull high limit poker player and author. You are not a world class mathematician/game theory expert, Nobel Prize winner, or the biggest winner in poker. If we could make our own rules, ugly people would be models, the tone deaf would be rock stars, and I would be the unified Middleweight Champion of the World.

Most successful people have big egos. So do a lot of unsuccessful people. The successful people say I did A, B, and C, therefore, I am great. The unsuccessful say I could do D, E, and F, if it weren't for X. While you are actually a member of the first group, you are acting like a member of the second.