The Role of Narcissism in Social Learning

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Narcissism is fundamentally ill named. It's excessive self-loathing and you're covering it up people who cannot modulate correctly Based on social feedback from others. Yes Really Last year our agency was being swallowed whole I realized I had two choices. I could die of boredom or holster up my guns So I walked into Lane Price's office and I said fire us Okay, so two things if you go back to the origin of the world itself now sisters right was a guy in Greek mythology He just could not Not gays at his own His own reflection. No, don't hope you got something like that The idea is that narcissism is called that because it’s excessive self

In this episode we explore what narcissism is and what is most-definitely is not. You will learn is that narcissists are not psychopaths, and vice-versa, but there is a form of narcissism which had been, up until now, confused with psychopathy, and vice-versa. According to the research of the two psychologists in this episode, narcissism may even need to be renamed, because it isn't excessive self-love, it's excessive self-loathing. Narcissists like Don Draper in Mad Men cope with their insecurity by donning a mask, and then spend most of their lives protecting that mask out of a fear of what will happen if people ever see what it hides.

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