Bill Gates on Desert Islands Discs (audio)

His own sense and easy admittance of his initially poor social skills is quite telling that he has grown. A large issue in our career field is strong egos, and poor self awareness of social issues. It is really telling when you see an engineer who realizes that being social is not so much a choice if one wishes to accomplish great things, partnerships are necessary.

I personally see failure of being a flourishing person, when I observe an anti-social engineer. These type of one-dimensional individuals are great to have as wheels in ones' machine but will never really ascend to greatness lest they embrace total self improvement.