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When successful people get together, they aren't usually "mean", or bad people. pg is successful, so his claim is naturally immature. For the rest of us, it's
by legohead 12y ago
When successful people get together, they aren't usually "mean", or bad people. pg is successful, so his claim is naturally immature.
For the rest of us, it's pretty obvious that successful people are mean, for the most part. Here's a simple example: politicians.
- tehwalrus 12y agoPoliticians, by definition, work for fights (arguments), not real things. PG mentions how unproductive fights are in his article, and (I think implicitly) says that fights are proportional to meanness. Not that parent and grandparent are not good points; the hypothesis he presents is quite unlikely given the correlation between psycopathic traits and business leaders (particularly "turn around an unsuccessful enterprise" CEOs.)[1] [1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2013/04/25/the-disturbing-link-between-psychopathy-and-leadership/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2013/04/25/the-dist...