BrassLion comments on Open thread, Jan. 26 - Feb. 1, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: BrassLion 28 January 2015 01:55:59AM 1 point [-]

It does seem like these are two mostly unrelated skills - leadership, teamwork, and time management on one hand, and vision, creativity, and drive on the other. They don't really oppose each other except in the general sense that both sets take a long time to learn to do well. There are enough examples of people that are both, or neither, that these don't seem to be a very useful way of carving up reality.

Comment author: Lumifer 28 January 2015 04:45:44PM 0 points [-]

They don't really oppose each

I think they do. Not in the "never shall they mix" kind of sense, but I would argue that these types form discernible separate clusters in the psychological space.

Comment author: gjm 28 January 2015 05:16:31PM 1 point [-]

Anyone got any actual evidence one way or the other?

(My own prejudices are in the direction of the two things genuinely being opposed, on handwavy grounds to do with creativity being partly a matter of having relatively inactive internal censors, which might be bad for efficiency on routine tasks. But I don't have much faith in those prejudices.)