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The media has been treating this finding which again We did not anticipate to be that video as if we had discovered fire, okay? You're not so smart has been nominated for a Webby award for best science and education podcast. Here's something fun. I'm making a spin-off kind of thing about Geniuses about what a genius isWhat does the word mean? That's going to appear over at him a Leia.

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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