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Thank you... wanted to say much of the same. I think it is all part of the PC movement to virtually castrate all aggression (mostly in men, in women it's fine). You need a certain amount of ego in order to lead. And yeah, confidence is not the same as ego but they are definitively interconnected. You need to display confidence to convince people to follow you, and you need a bit of ego to secure that confidence.

And some may say, but that's not the point where it is "toxic" but several of the samples in TFA are not counter or even in demonstration of where it might or might not be a toxic level. Even in communist/socialist societies the successful demonstrate an amount of aggression, ego and confidence. It's human nature. When it coincides with competence all the better.



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