Or, the article is precisely about you and you don't realize it. You might not be the son in the article. You might be the dad (hopefully with many decades of collecting yet to go).
Post frozen edit correction: I just realized I started this with "The dad" instead of "My dad". I originally had a couple of sentences starting with "The article ...". I guess I shouldn't post so early in the morning.
As the article progresses, the more and more apparent it becomes how full of himself the author is.
In an article that is ostensibly designed to honor his aging father, the author (a marketing professor at NYU) gets to the point that he wonders if his father isn't jealous of his ability to teach. Later, he backhandedly criticizes his father (while, again, complimenting himself) by saying that that he wouldn't take a flight to see his own grandkids but would to watch his son teach.
I'll give the author this: after reading this article, I am quite confident that he "believes to be true" that he is a great guy.
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