Wealth and the aggression factor: What makes a successful mogul?
Wealth and aggression have been anecdotally linked before in discussions about what makes a successful businessman. But a new article in New York Magazine attempts to bring a more scientific approach to the debate.
Wealth and aggression have been anecdotally linked before in discussions about what makes a successful businessman. But a new article in New York Magazine attempts to bring a more scientific approach to the debate.
Do you have to be aggressive and selfish to make it in America?聽 How much of your success is a result of your upbringing and the right learned behavior?聽 How much is genealogical?聽 How much of it is simply due to the social class you were already raised in?聽 And when you've made it, how different does your personality become?聽 Are you likely to become less humane or even less human?
This weekend's must-read is a feature story in New York Magazine that seeks to answer these questions or at least to frame the debates with some kind of scientific underpinning...
I'm fascinated by this stuff and I come across all kinds of contradictory examples of how affluent people behave versus how you'd expect them to behave each day.聽 You probably do too and these episodes likely have you constantly re-evaluating your beliefs on this topic.
Make some time for this over the weekend.