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Robert Sheckley has a short story called The Minimum Man, which is about precisely this. An unlucky, clumsy, error-prone schlub who gets hired by basically-NASA
by myself248 7y ago
Robert Sheckley has a short story called The Minimum Man, which is about precisely this. An unlucky, clumsy, error-prone schlub who gets hired by basically-NASA for testing purposes.
Turns out, when he's placed in a life-or-death situation, he finds some focus and skill, and is no longer the minimum man. So they have some ways to counter that tendency....
- jmkni 7y ago> So they have some ways to counter that tendency.... Alcohol?
- growlist 7y agoThat correlates with something interesting I learnt about leadership a while back - evidence shows that it's very hard to predict ahead of time whether someone will be a good leader from one context to another, with predicted good leaders often underperforming, and vice versa (might be a little out of date now).
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoWartime general vs. peacetime general is the classic example.
- ISL 7y agoIn times of crisis, we rarely rise to the occasion, but rather sink to the level of our training.