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This is because extraversion is partially composed of assertiveness (big five), which directly indicates your influence on your nearby human environment


"People get promoted because they influence others" is a description of the problem, not a justification of it.


> "People get promoted because they influence others" is a description of the problem

What do you think a leader’s job is?


To raise others up, and provide an environment where they can do their jobs effectively. Occasionally, to perform coordination tasks, such as deciding on overall strategy, or resolving disputes; more often, a leader delegates but is otherwise hands-off, since most well-functioning teams are largely autonomous. (This is, of course, from the subordinates' perspective: from the leader's perspective, it might look like a lot of putting out fires all of the time.) A leader's job is rarely to self-promote.


>To raise others up, and provide an environment where they can do their jobs effectively.

You mean: to influence them?


shh, don't explain the correlation. this isn't about understanding, its about pseudo-intellectual envy. "obviously!" the more people speak, regardless of what they say, the more those Other dumb apes will elect them leader. I mean, why, any old fool could read every word from the dictionary and end up CEO!

The Dumb Ape Hypothesis: we are at our most dumb when declaring others so.


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There is insight there if you’re able to hear it.


Is there? Was an insight provided that you didn’t already know?

It doesn’t make any sense at all to me as an outsider.

It might make perfect sense to an insider, as an expression that says something obvious in the lingo.

In between there are statements which require some lingo, but also present a novel argument. It might be one of these. But it very short. So, I conclude that it must be either very trite and surface level, or extremely clever (how far from the definitions can one get in once sentence? Not far unless they are very good)




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