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How many musicians do you like who are complete lunatics or toxic narcissists in real life? There just doesn't seem to be a correlation between success in some
by api 4y ago
How many musicians do you like who are complete lunatics or toxic narcissists in real life?
There just doesn't seem to be a correlation between success in some narrow domain like engineering, business, art, or music and being a good human being in general.
I also wonder if there's a causative factor. When someone becomes super successful they tend to get surrounded by people telling them what a genius they are. That can definitely distort someone's self image. Could you stay balanced if millions of people compared you to a comic book superhero for years and loads of people did whatever you said because you had tons of money? Now throw in tons of stress and quite possibly a good helping of loneliness due to the difficulty all this creates with forming real deep relationships with others.
- WalterBright 4y ago> There just doesn't seem to be a correlation between success in some narrow domain like engineering, business, art, or music and being a good human being in general. I don't see any particular correlation with being a bad human, either. Look hard enough at anyone and you'll find feet of clay. Success in their domains greatly outshine the clay.