Gas Lighters and Narcissus

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Some gas lighters or narcissus, some are just absolutely desperate people thet maybe are in a pickle and they don't know how to get out of it. They're not going to go full into false reality land. We're not talking about that person. They're small. They test the waters. And the most critical thing they do is to cut you off socially. That's a good sign. A if you notice some one else who used to be really social is avoidant,. When you ask them how things are going, they it's more an absence of information than the presence of information. It can't help if you're worried about becoming a victim of a gas lighter

In this live taping of the podcast at Caveat in NYC, Dr. Tessa West, the author of Jerks at Work, conducts quizzes to see what kind of jerk you are and what kind of jerk most-easily persuades you in the workplace. You will also learn how to counteract the behaviors of people who make work suck more than it should.

West is a leading expert on interpersonal interaction and communication and will explain how to make work suck less as we return to our offices and figure out how to balance working remotely with working in-person after a year of re-imagining what work even means. West’s new book is an exploration of all the psychological research into how and why gaslighters, bulldozers, neglectors, micromanagers and more do their thing in our workplaces and how to use what we know from decades of psychological research to counteract their Machiavellian machinations.

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