Well I'm stuffed - those very successful female pilots who can also work together, how do they deal with emergencies when their massive pilot ego doesn't come on line? I'm sure you can elaborate, Sunfish.
The pilot with the big ego is the one to avoid flying with, not to put up as typical of the profession! Although I'm sounding a bit flippant here, this bit is dead set truth. Ego is the root of press-on-it is and the 'don't tell me about the rules, they're for average pilots, not me' attitude which has killed a lot of our forebears and peers and will continue to do so.
Barristers and surgeons, though - what about plumbers? There's no room for the faint hearted in that line when they get half way through unblocking the dunny - they need the drive to carry on through adversity, and once committed to a course of action better not stop!