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🗓️ 25 February 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Learn about the trait you can borrow from narcissists to boost your professional and academic success; the groundbreaking and potentially life-saving discovery that came from studying tumors that can grow teeth; and the story of how a solar eclipse prediction helped end a war, restore an economy, and build a philosophy school that trained a couple of history’s greatest minds, with some help from Dr. David Warmflash.
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0:00.0 | Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
0:05.0 | I'm Cody Gough. |
0:06.0 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
0:07.0 | Today, you learn about what you can take away from Narcissists to boost your professional and academic success |
0:12.0 | and the groundbreaking and potentially life-saving discovery |
0:15.0 | that came from studying tumors that can grow teeth. |
0:18.0 | Plus, you'll hear how the prediction of a solar eclipse |
0:21.0 | helped end a war, restore an economy, and leave an impact on some of history's greatest |
0:26.0 | minds. In the second installment of our Moon Monday mini-series, let's satisfy some curiosity. |
0:31.2 | Narcissism isn't just a psychological condition, it's a personality trait. |
0:36.0 | All of us have some degree of narcissism, and it turns out that you can actually use that to your |
0:40.2 | advantage. |
0:41.2 | Get ready to have your narcissist stereotype shattered and find out what you could actually learn from people |
0:46.0 | who know how to harness their inner narcissist. |
0:49.0 | According to a September 2018 study from Queens University Belfast, narcissists are likely to have a trait |
0:55.0 | that's been closely linked to professional and academic success. |
0:58.0 | Mental Toughness. In a nutshell, mental toughness is the mind's ability to hold on to its sense of self and self-worth when things aren't going so great. |
1:07.5 | The boss didn't like your idea. No worries. He'll love the next one. |
1:11.0 | And who cares what he thinks anyway? |
1:12.6 | You're obviously a genius. |
1:14.5 | It's easy to see a narcissist slipping into that pattern of thinking. |
1:17.8 | And it's just as easy to see how that kind of thinking |
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