And again, a lot more goes into it than that. The ability to take criticism objectively and heed it has little to do with things such as professionalism or niceness. You're right about the rest though.
Yep, it's little more than personal experience. I know a considerable number of people who are prone to rejecting criticism of any kind and trying to rationalize or defend their decisions, no matter how 'nice' they are. Conversely, I know a significant number of people who think little of niceness, yet who are very open to improving themselves. Again, a lot more goes into it - being nice just makes you understand people better. Which is great, if not amazing, in most cases, but not in competitive domains.
As you said, it really depends on what you think goes into niceness, but it's really not an all-encompassing trait.
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I'd say professionalism comes down the three things.
- The ability to both give and take criticism objectively
- The ability to work well with a broad range of people regardless of personal conflicts
- The ability to suppress emotional and irrational influences and mental processes in favor of rational and logical ones.
Though I admit, niceness is tangentially related at best.
I have to strongly disagree. In any competitive domain, even in 1v1 games, the capacity to understand the people involved--on your team or not--is so, so important. If you can piece together enough of their traits and personality quirks to assemble something that can accurately emulate their mental thought processes, it transforms your ability to understand them into your ability to predict them. Whether your opponent or your teammate, the more accurately predict their behavior, the faster, better, and more efficiently you can work with or against them.
It really isn't, and again, it doesn't help that someone who's a complete asshole to a few people might be the nicest person in the world to others, y'know?
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For the sake of playing devil's advocate, if he's really so bad at soloing, why does he ever get any world firsts? Surely if he was a "clown" he would have nothing to his name at all? He might be stupid, but you can't argue with the results. They're not necessarily the best, but they are there.
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