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Ask HN: Do average people think A players are weird?

by jmilinion on 3/15/13, 9:15 AM with 4 comments

• by soneca on 3/15/13, 12:02 PM

  "A players are banished to spend the rest of their lives in specialized communities like Silicon Valley?"

  This sounds to me more like "tribal overrating" bias (I invented this bias myself :) ). You just define that SV only has these "A players" (a purposely loose definition btw), so you go ahead and also imagine there are no A players outside these "specialized communities".

  And I hate the way you formulated your question, opposing "average people" and "A players" so, so determinative, creating a "we" vs "them" situation.

• by 1123581321 on 3/15/13, 4:43 PM

  There are all kinds of successful people. Someone like Richard Branson, Woz or Felix Dennis are reportedly highly likable. Others like Nate Myhrvold, Bill Gross or Mark Zuckerberg do not get along with regular people as well.

• by gearoidoc on 3/15/13, 9:45 AM

  You don't need to be socially awkward to be an "A player".

• by chris_dcosta on 3/15/13, 11:24 AM

  "A players" are, by definition, not the weird ones.