[Beltiras]

I've been a 10X in the past. I don't exactly know why it faded away. Might be that I really REALLY believed in the mission back then but haven't found the spark for anything since. I'm not sure I exuded the toxicity you associate with 10X but I know I wasn't pleasant. I put myself under way too much pressure to get results.

My boss is a 10X all the time. I guess he believes in the mission he's on renovating the IT infrastructure of our org. He's super nice. The antithesis of what you speak of.

Point is: Personalities are different and not necessarily correlated with the 10X trait (if there is such a thing). It might be a host of different circumstances.

[marcus_holmes]

Totally agree. My productivity has varied over the decades, as has my attitude to the rest of the team. Luckily, I don't think I ever claimed to be "10x" (lucky because I have been at least that arrogant in the past).