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Toughness is only a partial order. There are plenty of people who would have no problem being in a fistfight, but would be terrified at the thought of e.g. hav
by pg 16y ago
Toughness is only a partial order. There are plenty of people who would have no problem being in a fistfight, but would be terrified at the thought of e.g. having to perform surgery, or give a speech in front of a large audience.
I've seen plenty of people who are very tough on the axes you mention but were unable to deal with the stress of starting a startup.
- maxawaytoolong 16y agoI just didn't think the examples given were very good.
- jules 16y agoSo you mean that toughness is NOT a partial order.
- jules 16y agoClarification: One of the properties of partial orders is antisymmetry. This means that for different people Joe and Jack it can not be simultaneously true that Joe is tougher than Jack and that Jack is tougher than Joe. So it seems to me that you explicitly say that this property does not hold.