You do realize, that if you are "the best in your trade", you literally compete against 7 000 000 000+ people, and outstand all of them? That's a pretty good deal and a reasonable explanation, to have an entire city named in your honor, or have a mansion for you and your offsprings to live for as long as they want.
That said, if I was to possess a trait that makes me better than EVERY single person on this lovely little blue ball of water, I'd want to have me and my work recognized first and foremost. Like, wherever I go, people would say something among the lines of "Hey, it's that №1 ____ dude, I wanna be like him!"