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malfist • yesterday at 10:17 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Thats absurd. Physical prowess may help influce others to follow you but outside small tribe level interpersonal relationships simply being the strongest person or best swordsman is hardly the required quality of a leader.

The strongest guy isn't in charge of the kingdom because the queen has an army.


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roughly • yesterday at 11:44 PM

You’re misreading me. I’m agreeing with you.

trhway • yesterday at 11:42 PM

https://globalnetwork.io/perspectives/2020/10/luck-bluff

"In his 2005 bestselling book Blink, Canadian journalist Malcolm Gladwell noted a seemingly bizarre fact about his work with Fortune 500 leaders. “In the U.S. population, about 14.5 percent of all men are six feet or taller. Among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, that number is 58 percent. Even more striking, in the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Among my CEO sample, almost a third were six foot two or taller.”"