Fooling Our Sense Of Morality

• Self-deception ensures that we can continue to see ourselves as good people, even when our actions would suggest otherwise
• This could be relevant to financial advisors, but also in private healthcare.
• The need to argue a point makes us think we're smarter than we are, research shows.
• Delusions of grandeur can be the cause of much of the political polarisation we see today.
• We can fool ourselves into believing things that are true even if there is evidence to the contrary.

While overt narcissists are more obvious and aggressive, bullying others or hogging the spotlight, covert narcissists can be sweet and ingratiating, manipulating their victims over long periods before they realize what's going on.

Establishing boundaries is critical with any kind of narciss...