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I sometimes see people say things like "the rich people are not super smart, just hardworking and lucky" and this is absolutely not my experience. From my very small sample that I was fortunate enough to collect, they're >99 percentile in all of: energy, intelligence, curiosity.
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They tend to be exceptional in other dimensions, not in these 3. I’ve met a fairly large sample, and more importantly, have also met a lot of people who are top 1% in energy, intelligence, curiosity but not wealth. They definitely push rich people down to like 70th percentile
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Controlling for inheritance effects (often overstated and easily controlled for), self-made wealthy, or inheritance super-multipliers, do tend to be top 1% in focus, risk-taking, indifference to sunk costs, and willingness to be disliked
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I realize you’re being rhetorical here, but the tops of these spectra are way past the “rich” point For eg: Top on intelligence is exceptional physicists/ mathematicians, who are usually middle class in wealth. If you’ve met a couple, the rich are very ordinary by comparison
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