Why Narcissists Cannot Grow
Surviving Narcissism with Dr. Les Carter
Dr. Les Carter
4.8 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
If you are a healthy person, you know you are a work in progress. You seek input. You contemplate insights. You embrace accountability. Dr. Les Carter reminds you that such an approach is anathema to narcissists who instead will thwart others' efforts to discuss improvements. As a result, they persist in all sorts of maladaptive behaviors.
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| 1:08.1 | Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Surviving Narcissism Podcast with your host, Dr. Les Carter. |
| 1:15.1 | I'm Michaela, the program director, and in today's episode, Dr. Carter will discuss why narcissists cannot grow. |
| 1:32.2 | Well, good day to you today, Team Healthy. I'm so pleased to be with you one more time, |
| 1:39.9 | and we're going to be talking about an angle that I know that most of you have bumped into many times over as you're dealing with that narcissistic individual in your life, or those, I should say. |
| 1:45.3 | And that is, narcissists have such a difficulty acknowledging their own need for growth. |
| 1:53.0 | Now, see, I'm going to make the assumption that if you're on my podcast or if you're on my |
| 1:58.3 | YouTube site and you're listening to all of the stuff that we put out, |
| 2:03.0 | I'm going to make the assumption that you want to grow. That's why you're there. All my life, |
| 2:08.6 | as an aside, I've been a reader. I like, you know, gleaning from the information that other |
| 2:15.6 | individuals have put out there, I make the assumption that |
| 2:18.9 | there's no way in the world that I can have all of the information and the insights within myself |
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