Lumifer comments on The Importance of Sidekicks - LessWrong

127 Post author: Swimmer963 08 January 2015 11:21PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (203)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Lumifer 21 January 2015 05:00:28PM 2 points [-]

I think that the hero-sidekick framework is just wrong for most kinds of relationships.

Comment author: wadavis 21 January 2015 05:13:01PM 0 points [-]

And what is your take on the A-Teamist Face-Planner team structure? Do you see it as similar to the Hero-Sidekick structure as described by Swimmer963? How about the 007-Q relationship?

There are too many fictional examples in this discussion, any non-anecdotal real life case studies?

Comment author: Lumifer 21 January 2015 05:22:16PM *  1 point [-]

Developing a full-blown classification of relationship types here seems to be a tad excessive :-) Let me just point out that the leader-peon type (see e.g. this) is not quite the same thing as the hero-sidekick type.

In real life I, for example, have zero desire to be either a hero or a sidekick. Accordingly, none of my relationships, either work or personal, can be described as hero-sidekick ones.