> The second is more effective at dealing with groups and generally is more pleasant to work with, except when they lose touch with reality completely and goes

> The second is more effective at dealing with groups and generally is more pleasant to work with, except when they lose touch with reality completely and goes berserk with groupthink. The uncomfortable truth is that such people always have lost touch with reality, that makes them very easy to deal with when they like you since they will overlook your faults and mistakes. But when such people dislike you then they will only see faults and mistakes in what you do. So it isn't that the first and second versions of those are more attuned to reality, the difference is only how positive or negative their lack of reality check is for you.