777: Kevin Dutton | The Wisdom of Psychopaths Part Two
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🗓️ 12 January 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Kevin Dutton (@therealdrkev) is a psychologist and author known for his research on the psychology of evil and the science of charisma. His latest book is The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success. [This is part two of a two-part episode. Make sure to catch up with part one here!]
What We Discuss with Kevin Dutton:- How having a con artist father who never lost his cool sparked Kevin’s interest in understanding the mindset of the psychopath.
- What Kevin means when he says that psychopaths understand the “words but not the music” of emotion.
- Contrary to popular belief, psychopaths aren’t necessarily violent. They could be a surgeon or a killer, a firefighter or an arsonist. (Or even a professor or an ax murderer.)
- Why psychopaths are often excellent at persuasion and identifying weakness in others.
- What percentage of the population exhibits psychopathy, and how psychopaths can actually be useful for society.
- And much more…
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| 0:05.2 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:08.3 | So Ted Bundy just to clarify, once confided to police, he said that I can tell a good |
| 0:14.4 | victim from the way she walks. |
| 0:16.5 | And what you find is a lot of bad psychopaths, especially psychopathic killers. |
| 0:20.7 | Have that predatory instinct that we were talking about earlier, they're able to spot |
| 0:23.5 | weaknesses. |
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