<< I feel like more and more one of the biggest requirements for success in business (not to mention politics) is just total shamelessness. I am going through

<< I feel like more and more one of the biggest requirements for success in business (not to mention politics) is just total shamelessness. I am going through 'Signal and Noise' by Nate Silver and, after dismissing it at first read, now I am starting to wonder if his attempt to categorize some people on how well they can predict things is onto something. The boorish bravado ( or at least a perception of it ) is clearly part of the requirement though. You simply cannot even register to people with all the noise around them.