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> Don’t expect balance from very talented people. People who are exceptionally good at one thing tend to be exceptionally bad at another, due to overconfidence and mental bandwidth taken up by the exceptional skill.

Also because of cross-compensation. Sometimes talent can compensate for the lack of another skill, thus allowing the person to be worse at that other skill and still succeed.



And often that other skill, the one they have less of, is about dealing with people.


Or vice versa, the person who is great at dealing with people and bad at everything else.




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