Generalizing from the coaching example, he argues a win in one field tempts people into another that needs a completely different kind of leadership.
Yeah.
And giving examples of the things that probably have the best chance to prove wise. You know? Well, I think I'm good
at writing. Like on another, I'm good at putting it in writing, which is like the thing I actually like doing. Right. If you told me I had to show up for work every day at, you know, a locker room for a sports team, like that might seem cool, but I would actually hate it. I would hate it so much, like, because I would not be in charge of my schedule. I would be in meetings all day and I would be not operating in the medium that I am most comfortable in, which is the written word. So like it is really important. I think that's, we can deceive ourselves with our own outcomes. Like I actually talk about this in the ego book. Like it's very common, for instance, like someone makes a great general and then somebody says you should run for office. And like very few military figures have ever actually been successful politicians because they're totally different forms of leadership, right? One, you have authority and the other you have to basically use the bully pulpit of persuasion and public opinion. And they're just different…
And no more so than in sports, I think, because you see it all the time where you have a good assistant coach who becomes a head coach.
Yeah.
And they had an expertise for calling plays or coaching pitchers or whatever it might be. But like to be a good head coach, you need to have a completely different skill set, a completely different ego and gall and, you know, fragile self-belief to stand in front of people and get them to follow…