Why don’t you work more on your middos personally and actually try to become a more simple and humble person which actually brings a person up to greatness as the famous line we know says “metoch shein lishmah yeyeh bah lishmah”……
No better way for a person to bring themselves to greatness then to work on their middos personally and it brings them up to greatness
May Hashem give you lots of Hatzlacha and may you become a big Tzaddik like Rebbe Akiva who first started working on bringing himself up to greatness at the age of 40 and look what a tzaddik he became with thousands of talmidim