Sorry you were downvoted but frankly I think the reptilian (as you call it) impulse for survival/not-dying is basically at the root of any real executive drive

Sorry you were downvoted but frankly I think the reptilian (as you call it) impulse for survival/not-dying is basically at the root of any real executive drive that yields the success stories we see (and also why people have a hard time shutting it off and stopping once they’ve made it).