A person can be a victim without feeling like a victim.

And a person can feel like a victim when they're actually not. There's a distinction between being a victim and feeling like a victim. We assume that when we're feeling like a victim, we automatically are in a situation of it. But the truth is that unfair treatment can live at literally any stage. You can have a hero complex. You can have a victim complex. And you can have a villain complex. The challenge, of course, is that if you have assigned to yourself the victim role,

then not only are you looking for a villain to place blame on whether or not there actually is a villain.

You're also looking for a hero to save you.

Hey, welcome back to the Personality Hacker podcast.

My name is Joe Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonio Dodge.

So at the time of this recording, it's the holidays.

It's the holidays.

Tony has a glass of wine here.

Cheers.

On set.

That's right.

Because if it's the holidays and I got to record podcasts, I might as well, you know. This is like...

Throw a little back.

Recording a podcast with half your brain tied behind your back.

Is that right?

Yeah, I'll probably be more interesting, actually.

I'll be down to earth more, quite frankly.

Actually, speaking about the holidays, I want to start off today with a story about the holidays

yeah so it was many years ago a long time ago had a long away and a galaxy far far away

i don't know if baltimore city is considered a galaxy far far away but probably it might be actually

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