Your Spidey sense should tingle whenever you read about a psychology result in a popular medium. Especially if that result flatters you in some way.
Yep, pretty much just need to see (inc.com) and then ignore it.
Being generous, thoughtful, and kind is a sign of high intelligence
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#22My mother is both mean and dumb. After a lot of conversation with her I've noticed one of the reasons why she's so mean is she doesn't seem to have the cognitive ability to think about the consequences of what she says or does before she says it or does it. She operates entirely on instinct and thinking through words/actions beforehand is a totally foreign concept to her.
I'm sorry you are experiencing that. Raising kids is very hard and my guess is she has unmet emotional needs that she never received and doesn't know she needs.
You're a step ahead though being curious as to why she is the way she is.
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Some of it is probably real, like repeat offenders of predatory crime. If you've done multiple violent robberies there's probably something in your brain off that allows you to do all that. There's a predatory ecological niche in every society. Very common in nature too. Altruism is less common than predation in nature, it seems. Though in the workspace, you may be onto something.
Why wouldn't there be psychopaths in the workplace? The way I see it there's a selection bias at play here. The kind of psychopaths who are repeat offenders are the ones who get caught, so of course we notice them. We don't notice the ones who don't get caught. That doesn't mean that they're any less ruthless and destructive to society -- they're just lucky / more functional. In my mind I view white collar crime to b…
The mark of the actual master is that almost no one can identify them, and the people who can are so rare as to probabilistically not appear in smaller companies. They “run” the company without the appearance of doing so.
If someone does appear who can identify them, they are quickly exited from the company via various means depending on the individual: pair them with a particularly distasteful partner/manager, make their job impossible via passive means, or enable them to humiliate themselves.
The only real symptom is that there is no one around them that competes with them in their self-perceived core competency, and they never seem to put a foot wrong. Once the are in a high position, anyone who complains about their behavior is said to be attempting to climb.
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If you've ever met a psychopath and seen their true colors, you will undoubtedly be convinced it's a real phenomenon. I have had the unfortunate experience of dealing with one myself. He showed all the hallmark signs. He urinated the bed frequently. He harmed animals when he was young. Specifically, he swung his pet gerbil around by the tail until the tail was severed. He threw a baby rabbit against a stop sign and k…
What does urinating the bed have to do with it?
It doesn’t.
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#26Your Spidey sense should tingle whenever you read about a psychology result in a popular medium. Especially if that result flatters you in some way.
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#27Your Spidey sense should tingle whenever you read about a psychology result in a popular medium. Especially if that result flatters you in some way.
In order to empathize it requires a mental model of how someone else thinks/feels.
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What does urinating the bed have to do with it?
It doesn’t.
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#29Re: Being generous, thoughtful, and kind is a sign of high intelligence
#30My mother is both mean and dumb. After a lot of conversation with her I've noticed one of the reasons why she's so mean is she doesn't seem to have the cognitive ability to think about the consequences of what she says or does before she says it or does it. She operates entirely on instinct and thinking through words/actions beforehand is a totally foreign concept to her.
The most common cognitive bias people have is assuming everyone else thinks/operates like them. It's reinforced with the widespread cultural belief that everyone is basically the same.