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Sounds like a false equivalence. No one is saying you need to be a social butterfly. > The most successful engineers and researchers I know personally; are not
by ambicapter 3y ago
Sounds like a false equivalence. No one is saying you need to be a social butterfly.
> The most successful engineers and researchers I know personally; are not particularly social people
I've seen plenty of capable or at least promising engineers torpedo their development by not being to read the room or adjust their social behavior.
> obviously they're able to exist in polite company and collaborate etc
Ok, so having the skills is considered a baseline? Sounds like they're pretty important then.
- MeImCounting 3y agoYoure right basic social skills are absolutely a baseline but being charming/sociable/a social butterfly and being able to integrate into a team, collaborate, express technical ideas to others and vice versa arent necessarily the same thing. My most effective teachers/mentors/role models throughout my life were often by all accounts kind of awkward sometimes. I think we as a society put lots of emphasis on the former and conflate it with the latter.