Zander Fagerson believes there is still room for improvement in his own game and insists he is not even thinking about touring with the British and Irish Lions next summer.
Fagerson, a Lions tourist to South Africa three years ago, is among the Scottish front-runners to be included in Andy Farrell’s squad for the trip to Australia next summer.
The 28-year-old did his cause no harm with a dominant performance for Scotland in Sunday’s win over the Wallabies, but he said the tour is not on his mind.
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“I'm not thinking about that at all,” Fagerson said.
“There's a lot of rugby to be played. You've got to stay fit as well. You've got to put your best rugby out there and control the controllables."
After an autumn that saw Fagerson go head-to-head with Ox Nche - widely thought of as the best loosehead prop in the world - before seeing off Wallabies’ Angus Bell, the Glasgow prop could hardly have given himself a better shot at becoming a two-time Lion.
But he believes there is more still to come.
“It is about getting back to Glasgow, making sure I can work on my craft there and then taking that into the Six Nations.”
Away from rugby, it has been an eventful autumn for Fagerson, whose wife Yasmine gave birth to twins Fia and Hector earlier this month.
And Fagerson is looking forward to getting home after a month in Scotland camp.
“I can't wait to get home. I've been there as much as I can [over the last month] but it's been tough. Full credit to my wife, she's been a superstar.
“She's been a real rock of the family and also my mum and dad and her parents well have been a massive help. I couldn't have done it without them.”
The twins remain in hospital, though Fagerson is hopeful they will be allowed home soon.
And he admitted not having the support of his family at Scottish Gas Murrayfield has been tough over the autumn.
"I'm doing it for them and all the sacrifice is for them," he said of his family.
And the Fagersons had another milestone to celebrate at the weekend, with Zander's younger brother Matt leading out Scotland as he won his 50th cap in the win over the Wallabies.
“Being involved in playing with him for his first [cap] and being involved in playing for his 50th was a really special moment for me and the family. He did us proud today, as he always does.
“I couldn't be prouder of him.”
Matt, who made his Scotland debut against USA on the 2018 summer tour, has become a mainstay of the Scotland side and his switch from number eight to the blindside flank - though he shifted back to the base of the scrum at the weekend - has seen him add different dimensions to his game.
Fagerson lauded his younger sibling's resilience.
"The way he goes about his work, his professionalism, having a few potential career-ending injuries with his arm, and coming back from that, how he's gone about that, how he's never missed a beat when he came back in.
"For me, going from eight to six and becoming a real line-out presence, it's been awesome to watch.
"It's not always been sunshine and rainbows, but I think he's really taken it in stride. I couldn't be happier."
The elder of the Fagerson brothers has also become a leader in a Scotland side he acknowledged is showing “glimpses” but needs to deliver on a more regular basis.
He believes the continuity in selection has helped Scotland over the past year.
"As the boys get more caps [there is] more cohesion. Everyone knows what each other does the whole time. We've developed that over the last couple of years."
The 70-cap prop added: “I think against Australia and South Africa, in attack, we've put teams on the ropes but we need to come away with points.
“I don't think the South Africa game we did that well, but I think against Australia we did.
“We've just got to be consistent there. I think we're in a good spot. Six Nations is such a competitive competition.”
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