The origin of a deadly personality

    Sam Hughes arrogant, egotistical personality, lack of empathy, a need to disobey and old fashioned, hardened and stubborn ways of thinking dragged him to make serious mistakes in planning and decision making, also scuffing his image with many controversies, some of witch cost thousands of canadian lives. But what could have caused such traits in him?
    Some examples of Hughes many disobedience's and mistakes have been the Ross Rifle controversy that cost thousands of lives in the battles of Ypres, the Shell Committee witch produced poor quality ammunition and incredibly unsafe factories, the usage of his newspaper the Victoria Weber as a propaganda source depicting his views, his strong support of civilian soldiers rather than professional ones, his strong faith in canadian made equipment in general that was very often poorly made and caused thousands of soldiers to suffer in the trenches and on the Salisbury Plain in England, and his formation of the sub militia council overseas to counteract the Prime Ministers attempts to limit Hughes power.
    His personality could have originated from a number of sources.
Growing up in a family of seven daughters and three other brothers, his need to disobey may have originated from the possibility that he had a difficult time getting attention from his parents and therefore disobeyed the rules in an attempt to have his parents focus on him more, even if they focused anger. Also, his lack of empathy may have come from his need to compete with his siblings for practically everything and therefore needed to not have empathy for his siblings to overcome them and earn what he desired. A side effect of his lack of empathy could have been his likeness of hunting and fishing.
    Finally, his stubborn, hardened and old fashioned personality might have come from his various services in the armed forces at very young and susceptible ages in the 1800s when modernized warfare was not implemented yet. Seeing the true extent of armed conflict firsthand could have toughened him and only amplified the negative aspects of his personality, also cementing his views about war and making him very hard to adapt to modern warfare.
    Although his personality did do much damage to his life, the positive aspects of it were his incessant passion for everything he started and a need to persevere and conquer any barrier. If these traits had been focused on then he would have been an incredible leader and politician. Unfortunately, psychology in the 1920's was considered largely hokum.