Not a criticism of the originator of this thread, but an observation: this thread could be used by some psych student to study how a man gets to be a multi squillionaire - be utterly confident that you are right in everything you do, ignore everyting but the 'big picture', including all criticism, and plough on with your master plan regardless.
It would appear to work very well in business (if not always - some businesspeople go broke). I have two friends who were both self-made millionaires before they turned 30, and the common thread seems to be a willingness to take enormous risks (with theirs and other people's money) and an ability to concentrate on 'the big picture' and not worry about all the little things that might go wrong.
It might help explain why airline pilots are so frequently so bad at business - we are trained NOT to take risks and to worry about all the little things and to go to extraordinary lengths to ensure some 'little thing' doesn't leap out of left field and bite us.
Maybe that judge had it right back in the 1960s when he used the term 'sui generis' - (roughly translated as 'like no other') to describe the profession of flying an aeroplane. And maybe that's why we're all wasting our time debating with a very clever self-made millionaire who for all his undoubted skills, does not appear to think along the same lines as most professional aviators.