People best at mature thing X are often those bored by X but not yet sick of it. True interest is often liability under diminishing returns
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Excited people are newbies, experts are bored. But inspirational leadership requires excitement. Fox leaders, hedgehog advisors?
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key qualification is mature field, it's more about mature versus young field than the people
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Got that; perhaps "dilettantes" or "laypeople" would've been better word choices than "newbies".

