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Pardon my being a contrarian, but consider if it were Steve Jobs or Larry Ellison or Thomas Edison asking this question. Societal progress sometimes benefits f
by mchannon 8y ago
Pardon my being a contrarian, but consider if it were Steve Jobs or Larry Ellison or Thomas Edison asking this question.
Societal progress sometimes benefits from arrogance. Perhaps it even depends on it on rare occasions.
Maybe you should consider owning and leveraging the arrogance you have by focusing on an entrepreneurial career track, where you can get people to put up with the arrogance.
- krapp 8y agoI don't believe the arrogance, per se, of any of these individuals benefited societal progress. In the case of Thomas Edison, his arrogance arguably held societal progress back.
- veddox 8y agoArrogant people are rarely great leaders. I'd posit that Steve Jobs wasn't successful because he was arrogant, but in spite of it. I don't think arrogance is ever to be excused. (Remember, arrogance is not the same as superior skill or knowledge, but an attitude that actively puts others down.)