CEOs are psychopaths, especially tech CEOs. they’re all either publicly or privately glad elon took the PR hit of being the first to cut off 3PAs and make the site fucking garbage
They’re both extremely similar words so it’s no surprise people get them mixed up, like psychologist vs psychiatrist. However I don’t see a sociopath ever becoming the CEO of a successful (at any point) company.
I don’t even know that spez is a psychopath, but he’s absolutely panicking and in way over his head.
Small nitpick, but psychopaths do not lack empathy. In fact, they have a high level of empathy. It’s how they know how to exploit and manipulate others so well. They would not be so successful at the top if they were not aware of other people’s insecurities, and how to manipulate those insecurities to their advantage.
From my understanding, they have a sense of cold empathy where they can very easily identify the feelings that someone is feeling in order to manipulate them, but they do not actually feel those feelings themselves, so they aren’t actually empathizing. They don’t feel sad when they see someone crying, but they can certainly understand they’re sad and they know how they should react to it.
There’s definitely a good chance people would consider me on the spectrum. I learned how to be sociable though and I feel pretty normal for the most part.
I dont agree with analysing human behavior under such a lens though and I think psychology will completely reconsider its approach in the next 50-100 years as it has in the past.
I agree with the overhaul part, but some things need to be categorized so people can be helped.
1+1=2, people with borderline personality disorder have trouble maintaining relationships, people on the spectrum have issues with social cues and empathize differently, and people with dyslexia struggle to read.
Those aren’t good or bad things. They just are. And it’s important we recognize them. These diagnoses doesn’t create the symptoms, the symptoms create the diagnosis. The symptoms are there whether you ignore them or not… and to even be classified as a disorder, something needs to be hindering your life in some way.
My mom always disregarded my worries about being different with “well we’re all a little crazy/different” and I think that was just her way of coping without identifying that she may also need help (psychiatry and psychology and the stigma in general we’re not great in her day). I wish I’d been helped sooner, because the difference between me with medication and me without is absolutely night and day, to the point where anyone that catches me on a day I forget to take my meds is insistent on asking me what’s wrong.
CEOs are psychopaths, especially tech CEOs. they’re all either publicly or privately glad elon took the PR hit of being the first to cut off 3PAs and make the site fucking garbage
Sociopaths. But yes I otherwise agree with you.
They’re both extremely similar words so it’s no surprise people get them mixed up, like psychologist vs psychiatrist. However I don’t see a sociopath ever becoming the CEO of a successful (at any point) company.
I don’t even know that spez is a psychopath, but he’s absolutely panicking and in way over his head.
Small nitpick, but psychopaths do not lack empathy. In fact, they have a high level of empathy. It’s how they know how to exploit and manipulate others so well. They would not be so successful at the top if they were not aware of other people’s insecurities, and how to manipulate those insecurities to their advantage.
From my understanding, they have a sense of cold empathy where they can very easily identify the feelings that someone is feeling in order to manipulate them, but they do not actually feel those feelings themselves, so they aren’t actually empathizing. They don’t feel sad when they see someone crying, but they can certainly understand they’re sad and they know how they should react to it.
I mean that describes me but I don’t try to manipulate people.
Any chance you’re on the spectrum? We tend to feel it differently. Actually there’s like 5 major disorders that could be described the same way.
Also some psychopaths don’t make it a game to manipulate people, and can come off as basically normal people. https://youtu.be/u2V0vOFexY4
There’s definitely a good chance people would consider me on the spectrum. I learned how to be sociable though and I feel pretty normal for the most part.
I dont agree with analysing human behavior under such a lens though and I think psychology will completely reconsider its approach in the next 50-100 years as it has in the past.
I agree with the overhaul part, but some things need to be categorized so people can be helped.
1+1=2, people with borderline personality disorder have trouble maintaining relationships, people on the spectrum have issues with social cues and empathize differently, and people with dyslexia struggle to read.
Those aren’t good or bad things. They just are. And it’s important we recognize them. These diagnoses doesn’t create the symptoms, the symptoms create the diagnosis. The symptoms are there whether you ignore them or not… and to even be classified as a disorder, something needs to be hindering your life in some way.
My mom always disregarded my worries about being different with “well we’re all a little crazy/different” and I think that was just her way of coping without identifying that she may also need help (psychiatry and psychology and the stigma in general we’re not great in her day). I wish I’d been helped sooner, because the difference between me with medication and me without is absolutely night and day, to the point where anyone that catches me on a day I forget to take my meds is insistent on asking me what’s wrong.