Why Narcissists are Successful: Cat- vs. Grin Narcopaths (Narcissism Cheshire Effect)
Channel: Prof. Sam Vaknin
Date: 26/02/2024

If narcissists are delusional and disconnected from reality, how come they are more successful than many normal people? 

The modern economy, definitely in the last hundred years, but more so after 1990, is about the manipulation of symbols within fantastic spaces. 

Narcissism Cheshire Effect

Cat narcopaths vs. smile narcopaths: cat ones focus on rewards and goals in outside world, smile ones emphasize how these rewards make them feel, on their inner world, which is often fantastic. 

Narcissists are successful precisely because they are delusional and disconnected from reality. 

The narcissist, throughout his life, from a very early age, as a child, had invented an imaginary friend and then a godlike figure, the false self, and spent the rest of his life interacting symbolically in a fantastic space.

In the modern economy, in the modern world, narcissism is a positive adaptation.

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