What You Need to Know About Narcissists
Erika Taught Me
Erika Kullberg
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
#78: For the second time on Erika Taught Me, I interviewed Dr. Ramani Durvasula. She is a clinical psychologist, author, and media expert who uses her social channels to educate people about narcissism and how to navigate it. In this episode, we explore her new book, “It’s Not You”, and the fundamental concepts she believes everyone needs to know when dealing with a narcissist.
You’ll learn:
• How to spot someone being a narcissist
• The professions that index high in narcissists
• Why someone would date a narcissist
• The three signs that you may be gaslighted
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| 0:00.0 | There are some people out there who are so overtly narcissistic. They're so entitled, they're so abrupt. |
| 0:06.0 | And it gets into this really tricky space of where entitlement overlaps with privilege, overlaps with narcissism. |
| 0:12.0 | A lot of media is like that too. |
| 0:14.0 | Because there's such cutthroat industry, |
| 0:16.0 | what a person needs to do to get to the top of that pile is brutal. |
| 0:20.0 | It's throwing people under the bus. |
| 0:22.0 | Sometimes it's deceit. It's throwing people under the bus. Sometimes it's deceit, it's breaking rules, it's behaving |
| 0:25.9 | on ethically, and those industries tolerate it because they're often based on returns. People will ask, |
| 0:30.8 | why don't these places get rid of these people they're doing so much |
| 0:33.6 | from like in an industry that's index by bottom lines they're having to make a |
| 0:37.7 | tricky choice here because nobody wants to kill the golden goose. |
| 0:40.5 | Dr Ramani is a clinical psychologist, best-selling author, and world-renowned expert |
| 0:45.8 | on narcissism, who uses social media to empower countless people by making psychology |
| 0:51.0 | accessible. |
| 0:52.0 | Attachment and love are basic human needs. |
| 0:55.9 | We want them. |
| 0:57.1 | We want to connect to other human beings, |
| 0:58.8 | whether as partners, whether as family members, |
| 1:01.5 | whether as friends. we value social connection. |
| 1:04.0 | We want to maintain attachments. |
| 1:06.0 | And in that quest to maintain attachments, |
| 1:10.0 | we justify, we rationalize, and above all else we blame ourselves. |
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