ABDG
My point is simply that success in many walks of life - law, medicine, business - demands a degree of intelligence and application and this may be useful to them in their flying. Of course, there are exceptions such as people who have inherited wealth.
It is not the case that the attributes which make a good businessman make a good pilot.
I know a superb busessman with an ultra detailed mind who is great as a pilot until overloaded when he freezes up.
A good pilot has a lot of spare mental capacity when loaded which isnt the same as having business mental capacity or ability.
I once had it described as a computer stored memory and a fast Graphics card with a lot of onboard memory.
Obviously the more information stored on the hard drive means less work for the graphics card but a poor Graphics card will bring the computer to a freeze if loaded with too much in visuals.
Its the freeze point that kills.
Obviously we all have different brains and abilities. racing drivers often make poor businessmen but it doesnt hold that an excellent businessman will make a good racing driver etc???
More important with our mixed bag of natural abilities and personalities is that we all fly within our own abilities as well as the aircrafts and never get into a brain freeze situation where we cannot cope, get behind the aircraft or situations and cannot pick up our game to meet a certain situation.
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