The Dangers of Outshining Your Master

If you cannot help being charming and superior, you must learn to avoid such monsters of vanity. Never imagine that because the master loves you, you can do anything you want. If your ideas are more creative than your master's, ascribe them to him in as public a manner as possible. Act naive. Make it seem that you need his experts. Commit harmless mistakes that will not hurt you in the long run, but will give you the chance to ask for his help. Masters adore such requests. He must appear as the sun around which every one revolves,. radiating power and brilliance, the centre of attention.