534 - The Difference Between a Narcissist & a Sociopath: I Ask Psychotherapist & Bestselling Author Lori Gottlieb to Breakdown The Inside Baseball of Therapy

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🗓️ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist and the author "Maybe You Should Talk to Someone." In this episode, she tells me the inside baseball of therapy: what's the difference between a narcistist and a sociopath? How do you spot them (so you don't end up in relationships with them) / make sure YOU'RE not one. I also ask her how to deal with passive aggression, the benefits of therapy, and what ways she's personally seen her own client's lives improve. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook Linkedin Instagram

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.4	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:09.4	Today on the James Altiger Show, what's the point?
0:16.4	Well, do you think you're different in any way from how you were when you were 21?
0:20.4	Yes, but it's hard to know how it would have been without therapy for instance.
0:25.2	You never really know it's like you can't prove a negative so I don't really know.
0:29.2	But I'll tell you how I use it and you can tell me if I'm using the wrong word but I really like my therapist
0:37.2	and she's helped me in the normal scenario in very difficult situations.
0:40.2	But I sort of feel like a therapist is a statistician.
0:44.2	So you've seen a thousand situations similar to whatever situation I'm going through.
0:50.2	And so you see well in half of those situations people did this and it turned out horribly
0:54.2	and in the other half they did this and it turned out great.
0:57.2	So I tell you my situation, you put it in the right category that you've seen thousands of times
1:01.2	and then you tell me what people did in the 50% or 10% or 12% that were it turned out great
1:06.2	and then I follow your advice.
1:09.2	I think therapy is more like getting a really good second opinion about the choices that you're making
1:17.2	and why you're stuck in the way that you're stuck.
1:21.2	So a lot of times we have theories about our own lives.
1:24.2	You know this is the reason that X didn't work out.
1:27.2	This is the reason why I'm having trouble in relationships.
1:29.2	This is the reason why I'm stuck in my career, whatever it is.
1:32.2	This is the reason why I kept getting into the same situation over and over.
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