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Re:Colin O’Brady Completes Crossing of Antarctica with Final... by maxxxxx on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @05:50PM (#18765582)
I have the same thought when I see presidential campaigns. I don't think a balanced person would put themselves and their families through that. You have to be some kind of crazy to do this. Maybe we need these extreme people, but I am not sure we should take them as something to aspire to.
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Re:Colin O’Brady Completes Crossing of Antarctica with Final... by samatman on Thursday December 27, 2018 @12:34AM (#18767588)
I think about this a lot.

We would have better leadership if it wasn’t such an objectively terrible job.

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Re:Colin O’Brady Completes Crossing of Antarctica with Final... by arethuza on Thursday December 27, 2018 @04:23AM (#18768484)
That's an interesting point about Henry Worsley - he was clearly an excellent leader but he couldn't rise in the UK military (and I suspect this is the case with many organisations) because above a certain point the job is about politics rather than leadership.
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