When you speak too frequently about the "amazing" or "brilliant" people that you are so lucky work with, it soon transforms in your listener's perception from magnanimity and gratitude to a rhetorical trick that makes you the arbiter of brilliance and amazingness (and a humble-braggart who portrays it as all surrounding you).
I was going to say that was an amazing and brilliant insight, but I decided instead to say I agree. Happy New Year, David.
There’s more to it than that. Who hires a team of brilliant people and one dope? The suggestion that your office is filled with brilliant people implies that you, too, are brilliant.
Exactly.