Many financially successful people are socially awkward. This gets amplified by people putting up a barrier because of the intimidation. This manifests itself

Many financially successful people are socially awkward. This gets amplified by people putting up a barrier because of the intimidation. This manifests itself in CEOs who lose contact with new hires in their firm, and famous speakers standing alone before their presentations. In this case, the level setting behavior is being the person willing to make contact, whether it's via small talk or something they care about. The original article is interesting. I wonder if the author is willing to not just go beyond things like physical appearance and intelligence, but to also ignore them entirely. (Are the first two "necessary but not sufficient" or just "unnecessary"?) My experience in life has been the former, not the latter.