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Yes. This is obvious if you've known just a few very successful people well at all for a while and more obvious if you know some very unsuccessful people. Robin Hanson agrees.
If you spend more time on something, you're going to get farther, and people with more energy spend more time pursuing their long-term goals.
By the way, I don't think what Cochran meant by 'moxie' was energy, if that's what you were implying.
Yeah, I guess that by 'moxie' Cochran meant some sort of emergent quality, that combines all the factors impacting your social status. Nonetheless, energy is probably one of these factors. I was imprecise, but being 'energetic' is also kind of imprecise description. What kind of energy, kinetic energy? We have some intuitive understanding, but we lack any precise characterization. And that's why I find this factor overlooked, because we have quite precise measurement of IQ but it's difficult to compare 'being energetic' statistically.
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