Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.