206 - Narcissism

You Are Not So Smart

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🗓️ 16 May 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In this episode we explore what narcissism is and what is most-definitely is not. You will learn is that narcissists are not psychopaths, and vice-versa, but there is a form of narcissism which had been, up until now, confused with psychopathy, and vice-versa. According to the research of the two psychologists in this episode, narcissism may even need to be renamed, because it isn't excessive self-love, it's excessive self-loathing. Narcissists like Don Draper in Mad Men cope with their insecurity by donning a mask, and then spend most of their lives protecting that mask out of a fear of what will happen if people ever see what it hides. - Show notes at www.youarenotsosmart.com Patreon: http://patreon.com/youarenotsosmart

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0:49.0	so smart.com. Okay, let's talk about narcissism.
0:53.7	Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.
1:22.2	Well, we first started doing the data analysis and we're like getting these findings. Pascal
1:44.4	was really excited about it. And he was like, you don't understand how big this is. Like,
1:49.4	you don't understand how big, how big of an impact it's going to have. And I really didn't
1:55.4	to be honest. I was like, I was like, you know, kind of like joking around with him. Like,
1:59.3	oh, yeah, this is great. But in the back of my mind, I was like, nobody's going to care.
2:02.8	Nobody cares. And I was wrong.
2:07.2	And so one thing that's been shocking me, I'm not going to lie to you David, shocking
2:13.7	me. So the media has been treating this finding, which again, we did not anticipate to be
2:19.3	negative with you as if we had discount fire. Okay. Yeah. So I saw it on Reddit before you, David,
2:26.4	I saw it on Reddit. Randomly scrolling, scrolling down, down, down. I was like, what?
2:32.1	People do care. So it was really a lot. People care a lot. It was, it was really exciting.
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