The kind of personality that is the most successful in the current economic system combines a highly focused, controlled, disciplined and regimented side with an audacious, risk-taking, mercurial and independent bent. Somebody who accepts no disciplining from an outside authority but has a very deep source of inner discipline.
Usually, the mercurial, bold and dynamic idea-generator and the patient, focused plodder are two different people. It’s combining the two such contradictory personalities into one that’s difficult and rare.
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