Quote from: RE on Feb 22, 2025, 08:40 PMThe "grooming" you refer to was during the years in Brazil, playing chess against my dad's associates and state department apparatchiks and doing math tricks. Later on I spent a couple of years being tested by psychologists and jumping through a variety of hoops. All through those years at the various parties and picnics, I observed the behavior and dress of all the people involved, bankers, state dept, CIA and military. I'm a good observer.
RE
I see. So your insight is related to the more social aspects of how the movers and shakers behave, as opposed to being in the room when they are going at the details hammer and tongs? I'm trying to think of any muliti-corporate or multi-national deal where that end of the deal was happening in a social environment. Social environemnts tended to be before we went into combat in some conference room, or after the details were hammered out among the financial/technical/legal heads of departments and their CEO.
Obviously our experience was gained in different decades and even centuries, and from different perspectives.