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Sometimes desire distorts perception
I thought this was pretty funny. It would seem that people were looking at Tony Blair's doodles and the experts concluded that he is stressed and not a good leader. The only problem with the conclusion? It wasn't Blair's writing - it was Bill Gates. I guess that is why he has been such a failure inthe business world - he is stressed and not a natural leader.
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I think this is another good example of how we sometimes assess and analyze new input in such a way that it can only support our own preconceived ideas. the story |
Actually, that's interesting. There have been articles that claim that Gates has been as successful as he has because he tends to stress over the competition.
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i also remember an excellent study that concluded gates was borderline autistic. i personally think the nerd rocks.
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I probably wouldn't vote either into office...
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ok, HM - why wouldn't you vote for Gates?
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Reminds me of an old psychology study about perception based on expectations ... same article was passed around with either a male or female's name as the author ... subjects mostly reported that the female's article was more poorly written than the male's.
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Who says Gates is NOT stressed? Maybe he is, and maybe he isn't. He's the head of his own outfit, not a nation. Surely the qualities required for the two different jobs would be more an intersection of sets rather than a union of them. I don't get the problem here. :confused:
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I like my political and corporate leaders separated by several ten foot poles. Plus, I don't like Gates' views on corporate competition.
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Kill the chief and adopt the survivors into your tribe to increase genetic diversity has been going on since the beginning of recorded history. It's just fallen out of fashion in the last couple hundred years.
Oh shit, I think I just figured out the secret microsloth business plan. |
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I wouldn't vote for someone who wanted to move us back a couple of hundred years either.
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I was referring to wolf's post, not Gates. I identify more with the ethical views of the last two centuries than the time before.
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Hmmm... I'll take the hunter-gathers. At least the destruction was limited in their era (ie a few dozen or at very most, a few hundred). |
You say atomic bomb like it's a bad thing...
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