Re:The Surprising Problem of Too Much Talent
by halayli on Saturday August 15, 2015 @06:52AM
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You are confusing talent and personality. You can be untalented with a difficult personality and vice versa.
Re:The Surprising Problem of Too Much Talent
by lavya on Saturday August 15, 2015 @07:48AM
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He's not confusing talent and personality. He clearly wrote that there seems to be a correlation between the two: "people with exceptional talent also seem to have exceptionally large egos to match"
Re:The Surprising Problem of Too Much Talent
by vkjv on Saturday August 15, 2015 @10:06AM
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Yes, but I don't agree with that hypothesis. From what I've seen, ego tends to peak around the "above average" range where they are trying to convince everyone (including themselves?) that they are extraordinary.
The truly amazing people demonstrate it in action not words.
From sports teams to software engineers, people with exceptional talent also seem to have exceptionally large egos to match. A team of normal people can usually tolerate & use one of them to their advantage, but a whole team of super-egos? What would happen if _everyone_ working on the linux kernel had the skill & personality of Linus Torvalds? There's no way that team would function. :)