What is Psychopath?
- Snakes in suits written by psychologists bring up the new term "corporate psychopaths"
- A psychopath is a person with a psychopathic personality is a personality disorder. Very much misinterpreted by media. Are often success with their business.
- They don't have a conscience because they lack emotional connection. Lack of empathy.
- Parts of the brain such as parts of the limbic region, hippocampus, amygdala don't function the same as "normal" people.
- Egotistical, self-centered, lack of remorse, manipulative for their own gain and knowing it. They are charming and easy to like. Their body language, hand movements etc is fake.
- Competitive
- 1/100 has a psychopathic personality
- They make a false sense of intimacy with their victim. It's a game to them.
- They are risk takers
- in 2000 the richest 1% owned 40% of the worlds total assets, the richest 10% owned 85%, the bottom 50% only own 1%
- A study testing psychopathic tendencies of top 400 company's executives found the same distribution as in the public but high score of those who are psychopaths
- They mimic high power people
- SSRI drugs used as an antidepressant is changing the metabolism of serotonin, drugs like this numb you emotional range after time.
- There could be a link between antidepressants and sociopathy
- SSRI pills dumbs down empathy
- Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments. In 1961, Milgram recruited pairs of volunteers to take part in a “memory test”. One volunteer was given the job of a teacher, the other, learner. Each time the learner gave a wrong answer on a memory test the teacher was instructed to give the learner an electric shock and to increase the voltage with every error. If the volunteer was shown videos of other people going all the way through they were more likely to do so too if they were shown video of someone refusing they were more likely to disobey authority too.
- This shows we are willing to follow psychopathic leaders simply because its commonplace to blindly follow authority.
- We affect people who a 3rd degree attached to us eg a friend of a friend's friend.
- everything is influenced by others, to the extent free will doesn't truly exist.
- When you surround yourself with good people, the goodwill ripple through networks of people
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