Nick Pell
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first heard Jan 2025
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And you know, there's totally situations where like a guy just needs to come in, bark orders, and people just need to do what he says.
These are crises and emergencies, right?
Like if your house is burning down and you will accept the leadership.
You know, like if your house is burning down and a and a firefighter comes in and yells at you to get out of the house, you are going to immediately do what he says.
But this is so situational, and this is not how
how human societies elevate their leaders, especially not in the modern world.
situational.
It's
Yeah, there so this is especially true in Ice Age cultures during the population bottleneck.
This is in northern Europe, during the last glacial maximum ice age, which is exactly what it sounds like.
Nope.
Toughest guys top out about Colonel.
Yeah, that makes sense.
There's elite training schools that you go to that but my understanding is somebody who's never been in the military, that some of these you go into and it's like
Lieutenant Colonel, that's your ceiling.
It's not like who can withstand the most pain and and deal out the most death.
That is not who g who gets leadership.
It's who's good at getting people to cooperate.
In human evolution, the leader is often, even in ancient history and in prehistoric times, is often the person with the best social intelligence who can manage people.
So, a super specific example, there are a lot of historians who argue that D-Day was such a disaster for the Germans because nobody wanted to wake Hitler up in the middle of the night and tell him that the Allied forces were landing in Normandy.
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