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Thank you. live a purposeful and fulfilling life. Let's go. All right. Welcome to Episode 767. Hello, my friend. Welcome to a fresh new episode of New Mindset Who Dis, As always, thank you so much for listening. Thank you for supporting me. And today, you know, if you listen to the podcast, you know, I'm not really want to throw around the term narcissist. Everyone's a narcissist nowadays, right? Everywhere you look, they're a narcissist, you're a narcissist, I'm a narcissist. But I do want to talk about why we tend to fall for that kind of person, and you can call them whatever you want, but why do we fall for this kind

of person? And I have one specific thought, and it's about context. But to start, I read this

article in the New York Times, and it was suitably titled, Why We Fall for Narcissistic Leaders starting in

grade school. And this article will make a really good entry point into the topic. This is not a

podcast that never has been about politics or anything like that. But this article in particular

gave me a catalyst for thinking about why we fall for narcissists, like,

outside of politics, right? So in dating and friends and business and the internet, you name

it. And so the article is basically talking about, you know, why do we keep basically like

electing narcissistic leaders, even though the evidence presents itself clearly that they're bad at leading. And the article

basically walks through how narcissists consistently underperform as leaders. And you know,

you'd have to fact check all this, but it basically points out how presidents like Nixon and

LBJ had huge egos. And the result was it led to a lot of really bad decisions. And it also

talks about CEOs who took reckless risks and basically crashed their companies. It also talked

about even NBA players whose, you know, tweets correlate with their performance on the court.

So it's like really interesting research, but pretty condemning research.

And, you know, it presents that and says, yet we continue to choose these kinds of people

over and over again. But it points out that we choose those kinds of people, especially during

times of instability and anxiety. That is, when the world feels chaotic, we gravitate toward people projecting

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