Comments on: Arnold Schwarzenegger – Master of the “S” Curve ? http://www.sastwingees.org/2004/08/21/arnold-schwarzenegger-master-of-the-s-curve/ Knowledge is Scrumptious Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:13:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2004/08/21/arnold-schwarzenegger-master-of-the-s-curve/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Anonymous Sat, 28 Aug 2004 05:58:15 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2004/08/21/arnold-schwarzenegger-master-of-the-s-curve/#comment-19 Evolutionary and Revolutionary S curves - i think that is much better than the continuous and discontinuous S curves i came up with. Your observation that people starting with a career based on their physique are rather forced to start off on another path very early in their lives is a great point. However i think we may have to come with a category between evolutionary and revolutionary - Players becoming coaches/commentators or becoming GMs etc is an easier evolution than a bodybuilder becoming an actor that too one of the top box office draws of all time. I did some cursory research on who else has done something similar and <a href="http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/regpark.html" rel="nofollow">Reg Park</a> came up. Apparently he was the inspiration for Arnie. Another person that came up was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Weissmuller" rel="nofollow">Johnny Weissmuller </a>(5 olympic medals, one of the best swimmers of his time). He became Tarzan in the movies and became even more famous, but again didn't reach anywhere near Arnie's success levels. So it does seem kind of rare for people to make this transition with extremely high levels of success. In terms of revolutionary ones, don't know what you thought of Albert Schweitzer and Ben Franklin (see the orginial post) as people with revolutionary curves. Also isn't it kind of surprising to see not many people with 3 "S" curves that too reaching the top in each of them ! Evolutionary and Revolutionary S curves – i think that is much better than the continuous and discontinuous S curves i came up with. Your observation that people starting with a career based on their physique are rather forced to start off on another path very early in their lives is a great point. However i think we may have to come with a category between evolutionary and revolutionary – Players becoming coaches/commentators or becoming GMs etc is an easier evolution than a bodybuilder becoming an actor that too one of the top box office draws of all time. I did some cursory research on who else has done something similar and Reg Park came up. Apparently he was the inspiration for Arnie. Another person that came up was Johnny Weissmuller (5 olympic medals, one of the best swimmers of his time). He became Tarzan in the movies and became even more famous, but again didn’t reach anywhere near Arnie’s success levels. So it does seem kind of rare for people to make this transition with extremely high levels of success. In terms of revolutionary ones, don’t know what you thought of Albert Schweitzer and Ben Franklin (see the orginial post) as people with revolutionary curves. Also isn’t it kind of surprising to see not many people with 3 “S” curves that too reaching the top in each of them !

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2004/08/21/arnold-schwarzenegger-master-of-the-s-curve/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Anonymous Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:04:31 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2004/08/21/arnold-schwarzenegger-master-of-the-s-curve/#comment-18 I think it is reasonable to expect multiple S curves for people that start out with using their physical talents as their primary career. Sports personalities would fall into this category. Once they have achieved their peak, they can no longer excel in their primary skill. With a long life ahead of them, they are forced to either pick up a new skill or use their previous talent to create new roles for themselves in the same area. Coaches, commentators etc come to mind. With Arnold, acting was a natural progression of his body building skills. These would be Evolutionary S curves vs revolutionary S curves. It must also be noted that skills acquired during the first S curve are transferable to the future curves. One should expect that future skill acqusitions should proceed at a faster rate than the first one, especially if specific patterns had been established in the first. It would be interesting to come up with personalities that exhibit revolutionary S curves. I think it is reasonable to expect multiple S curves for people that start out with using their physical talents as their primary career. Sports personalities would fall into this category. Once they have achieved their peak, they can no longer excel in their primary skill. With a long life ahead of them, they are forced to either pick up a new skill or use their previous talent to create new roles for themselves in the same area. Coaches, commentators etc come to mind. With Arnold, acting was a natural progression of his body building skills. These would be Evolutionary S curves vs revolutionary S curves.

It must also be noted that skills acquired during the first S curve are transferable to the future curves. One should expect that future skill acqusitions should proceed at a faster rate than the first one, especially if specific patterns had been established in the first.

It would be interesting to come up with personalities that exhibit revolutionary S curves.

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