HACKER Q&A
📣 what-imright

What quality in a person is the most detrimental to success?


What quality in a person is the most detrimental to success?


  👤 themodelplumber Accepted Answer ✓
One quality? Sheesh. There are so many incompatible or even contradictory models in this space which are also really useful in isolation.

If I had to pick one for fun, I'd say the inability to meaningfully process changes in energy. There's a change at work, good or bad, and you can't ride the wave (in time | effectively | appropriately | etc). Or there's a change in self, good or bad, and you can't process it, so you bring it to work and it interrupts your success at work.

That stuff is always happening all around us and within us, and it's extremely rare that people know it needs to be handled, let alone what to do about it. We are still in the stone age of this kind of work, and it not only blocks our own success but also propels us to block others' success whether we want to or not. We think/fear that it's only about emotions, we aren't sure what other words to use, we conflate labels with truth in the space, we overuse the disease model when other models provide more traction, and so on. A huge mess.


👤 IceMetalPunk
It's hard to answer this question without first defining "success". I know my personal definition of success is quite different from many peoples', so my answer to what quality is detrimental to that success may not apply to other peoples' ideas.

👤 WheelsAtLarge
Inability to work with others.

👤 codefreeordie
A strong sense of entitlement.

👤 BMc2020
Being born into poverty.

👤 yababa_y
Incuriosity.