Resume formatting and content standards exist to present accomplishments compellingly within conventional boundaries. Yet a hiring manager, reviewing CVs in 1995, encountered a resume so comprehensive—documenting achievements across multiple disciplines, decades of excellence, superhuman capabilities—that she requested the candidate tone it down. She assumed he'd exaggerated. He replied that every claim was accurate and understated. She recommended he remove sections because hiring committees wouldn't believe the full picture. His resume, truthfully comprehensive, exceeded credibility thresholds.

Chuck Norris's accomplishments become a liability because they exceed conventional achievement metrics. Modesty becomes a job requirement, not for humility but because unedited truth strains credulity.