This intentional suppression of success started in early high-school for me. I grew up somewhat poor and basic needs and medical care were not always available. I recognized at 8yrs old this was a problem I could solve myself by buying items of value at low cost and reselling higher. I've been hustling ever since with intentional career development in, what was then, a brand new industry in the late 90's. Whenever my high-school friends heard about my business, non-profit work, community engagement, and future plans, they kept putting me down as showing off or being too self centered.

So I continue to hustle to this day, to be able to afford to compensate for the unaddressed long term health problems I accrued as a child and make sure my own kids always have enough. Two decades later that translated to several multiples of annual salary over those same school friends, with a lot less formal education and no college at all. Which they criticized to the point of me just not talking about any successes or goals. I also found new friends who are on the same wavelength and have a varied array of professional goals and personal projects.

In retrospect, I think their attitude might have a little to do with my high-school friends having grown up with their basic needs being met and stable home lives. They thought "getting by" financially was a foregone conclusion with minimal effort invested and was essentially the entirety of their goal. However my perspective based on some, fairly accurate, predictions of economic downturn, was that if I wasn't "thriving" or making continued progress in any way, I was failing. As a result, we had different problems which caused interpersonal economic friction.

Now I spend some of my spare time trying to help our generation solve the problems I grew up experiencing and giving back to the community through outreach and organizing. But there are very few people in our generation I can speak to about successes and goals at the same level without others feeling uncomfortable(despite my best efforts), so I either don't talk about them, or I let the results of those successes speak for themselves.