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Fail Better with David Duchovny

Patric Gagne and the Art of Sociopathic Zen

Fail Better with David Duchovny

Grace Cohen-Chen

Society & Culture

4.6534 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

When I first heard about Patric Gagne, a diagnosed sociopath with a buzzy new memoir, I was intrigued. If she lives without the social emotions that often hold us back — embarrassment, jealousy, and shame — does she actually have a superpower? What can she teach us about failure, and does she fear it like the rest of us do? After tearing through her book, I sat down to discuss these big questions, bust the tired tropes, and learn about the Zen of sociopathy.  Follow me on Instagram at @davidduchovny. Stay up to date with Lemonada on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia. Joining Lemonada Premium is a great way to support our show and get bonus content. Subscribe today at bit.ly/lemonadapremium. And if you want to continue the conversation with other listeners, join the My Lemonada community at https://lemonadamedia.com/mylemonada/ For a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this and every other Lemonada show, go to lemonadamedia.com/sponsors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's morning in New York.

0:02.8

Oh, God.

0:06.2

Hey, everybody.

0:07.3

I'm Mandy Patinkin.

0:08.7

And I'm Catherine Grady.

0:09.8

And we have a new podcast.

0:11.7

It's called Don't Listen to Us.

0:14.1

Many of you've asked for our advice.

0:16.1

Tell me, what is wrong with you people?

0:19.2

Don't listen to us.

0:20.3

Our Take It or Leave a Advice show every Wednesday out now, a Lemonada Media Original.

0:30.0

So today's guest on the podcast is Patrick Gagney, who identifies the sociopath and has written a memoir called sociopath.

0:40.1

And I'm in Greece shooting Malath, a limited series here, and I'm thinking about Greek gods

0:49.2

because they figure into the show a little bit, but also because I grew up loving Greek mythology,

0:56.7

Edith Hamilton's book on mythology, was like by my bedside all the time. And I just ingested

1:02.4

the Greek gods and their misbehaviors. And they were horrible to one another and horrible to humans.

1:09.1

They were constantly raping and killing and being jealous of humans and doing, you know,

1:14.0

transforming themselves into swans and bulls and, you know, just these incredible stories

1:19.5

of the gods.

1:23.1

And as I got older, I realized, well, they're just kind of mirroring the worst of human behavior,

1:27.7

or let's say the extremes of human behavior, what human behavior is capable of,

1:32.9

or at least metaphorically capable of, these transformations, these acts of violence,

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