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I’m not sure it’s a deliberate form of counter signaling, but… I see a lot of people emulate the antisocial or neurotic traits of the highly successful based on
by api 4y ago
I’m not sure it’s a deliberate form of counter signaling, but… I see a lot of people emulate the antisocial or neurotic traits of the highly successful based on the faulty premise that these are causal for their success.
Will doing heroin make you a rock star?
Might it be that Steve Jobs and Elon Musk succeeded not because of but in spite of some of their antisocial traits? Maybe you should emulate their work ethic and skills instead.
- greggarious 4y ago>Will doing heroin make you a rock star? No but the trauma that makes you do heroin can produce beautiful lyrics. (Or so I'm told.)
- xiphias2 4y agoElon Musk was reading books all the time when he was young...of course it will lead to even less social skills than what he would have had as he was growing up.
- greggarious 4y agoIf you don’t read books when young it’ll be difficult to go to uni, and “reading books” isn’t particularly unique among gifted kids.
- andsoitis 4y ago> emulate the antisocial or neurotic traits of the highly successful based on the faulty premise that these are causal for their success I believe that’s “cargo cult”-ing.
- daniel-cussen 4y ago