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by begueradj 741 days ago
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.
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sofixa 741 days ago
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.

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itsoktocry 741 days ago
>Are any of those successful leaders?

Is the OP, or any of his friend group?

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HeatrayEnjoyer 741 days ago
Agreed. The three individuals they listed are not anyone I would want my child to grow up to be.
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sofixa 741 days ago
Or people I anyone would like to work for.
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kaliqt 741 days ago
Disagree, I'd like my son to lean towards Elon Musk.
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HeatrayEnjoyer 741 days ago
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.

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sofixa 741 days ago
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?
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