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Covert Narcissists
- Covert Narcissists may quietly and strategically fish for acknowledgement or compliments.
- At work, they might cosy up to you and a colleague, only to badmouth each of you to the other, pitting you against each other so that the covert narcissist can look like the model employee in comparison.
- Driving this behavior is an internalized sense of shame, so they overcompensate by trying to make themselves seem superior.
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Worse Than Regular Narcissists
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...
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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, researc...
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The Concept Of Self-Deception
- We lie to ourselves to protect our self-images, which allows us to act immorally while maintaining a clear conscience.
- According to the very latest research, self deception may have even evolved to help us to persuade others
- This research might explain questionable behavio...
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Exploring The Possibilities
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There are three guiding questions that you can use to come up with a new, integrated solution:
- How might we create a new model using one building block from each opposing model, while throwing ...
The Angry Cognitions Scale (ACS)
It helps a user read a set of blood-boiling scenarios and rates how likely they are to have each of six possible reactions. It enables you to recognize unhelpful thoughts that cause a knee-jerk reaction. For example: When you are driving through a residential area, and someone backs their car...
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