[mustang-med]

I'm certain this is the case with humans as well.

Growing up, I had a tight-knit group of four friends in a lower middle-class townhouse community. I think the enthusiasm we all brought to our childhood and embracing our diversity (all four of us were completely different races) helped us all excel as adults. It's been 15-20 years since college, but I remember how socially underdeveloped many of my peers were. Almost two decades since then, it's not a surprise to anyone that the more socially and emotionally in-tune people climb their industries faster.

[begueradj]

Lots of successful leaders (Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Thomas Edison ...etc) are/were introverts with few to no friends during their childhood.

On the other hand, that depends on the environment: if Joe is born in a poor crowded corner of the town where drugs and stuff are the coin, Joe may have more chance to succeed in life if his parents isolate him from the neighborhood as a child/teenager.

[sofixa]

Are any of those successful leaders? They're successful entrepreneurs no doubt, but all exhibit(ed) sociopathic behaviour and are widely documented as not being nice nor nice to work for, being extremely particular, demanding to the extreme, and genuine assholes.

None of those are good leadership qualities.

[itsoktocry]

>Are any of those successful leaders?

Is the OP, or any of his friend group?

[HeatrayEnjoyer]

Agreed. The three individuals they listed are not anyone I would want my child to grow up to be.

[sofixa]

Or people I anyone would like to work for.

[kaliqt]

Disagree, I'd like my son to lean towards Elon Musk.

[HeatrayEnjoyer]

Why? He is a terrible person and a terrible role model. Greedy, self centered, fosters a cult of personality, emotionally immature, and refuses to acknowledge his own daughter without any good reason. I wouldn't shake his hand if he offered it.

He's a person to point your son to as an example of what not to be.

[sofixa]

You would like your son to be arrogant, extremely incompetent in lots of things (reminded that the man thought he knew better than cave divers about caves, and was evaluating developers by number of lines written), publicly embarrass himself weekly, and be hated by all of his former wives and children of which there are many?