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#Power Causes #BrainDamage
How leaders lose mental capacities—most notably for reading other people—that were essential to their rise
Dacher Keltner, a psychology professor at UC Berkeley found in studies spanning 2 decades:
"Subjects under the influence of power acted as if they had suffered a traumatic brain injury—becoming more impulsive, less risk-aware, and, crucially, less adept at seeing things from other people’s point of view"
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/power-causes-brain-damage/528711/