Borg999

Speaking of which...

I don't think she needs the test.

Score 22%.  Quiz, 5/7 correct.  I read an article in a business magazine a few months back.  Title something like"What Psychopaths can teach us about success in business."  What caught my eye was the statement that its the traits many successful entrepreneurs share with psychopaths that lead to 'success.'  

Quoting starkers,

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I used to be a psychopath, but since I got a new pair of tweezers for pulling the wings of flies I'm all better now.  Why I even stopped scaring people just to see them have an accident in their pants/underwear.... and laughing out loud when somebody at the station gets pushed onto the tracks as the train approaches.

Yup, I'm a changed man.  Now instead of actually doing it, I only threaten to throw bankers and politicians under the bus to watch them squirm and beg for mercy.

Quoting ElanaAhova,

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What caught my eye was the statement that its the traits many successful entrepreneurs share with psychopaths that lead to 'success.'

It's not that they share many of the same traits as psychopaths.... they ARE psychopths, just in suits and a tie.   Case in point: Donald Trump.

Sans the trump comment - I totally agree with you.  It has been one of my life long issues.  Way too many 'successful' CEO's (etc.) treat other people like trash - as disposable OBJECTs, except, of course, their circle, and key allies.   (BTW, trump is the worst thing to happen to the U$A since 9-11, IMHO)  I'm just not sure if partisian political comments were permitted in this thread. 

Think about those who attended his university, a 'failed' educational institution. I think more along the lines of a sociopath. I don't remember my score but it wasn't too bad. At least I don't cook my cats. That should count for something. 

I dunno about 'failed' educational institution, clearly, Trump failed at education... and business.  While he professes to be a successful businessman, he had 2 or 3 bankruptcies and a number of bad debts forgiven [read wiped] because he conned his way out of them.  Truth is, it's his father's money that got him started, and his father's money that saved his arse when he was doomed to fail miserably as an entrepreneur and 'self professed' real esteate mogul.

Frankly, I wouldn't allow Trump to manage one of those kids worm farms, let alone a corporation or the affairs of a country. 

As a psychopathic megalomaniac, he isn't fit to shovel shit in any bugger's outhouse.

Being a psychopath/sociopath is more than just "freedom from other's concerns".  It brings about an unbalanced and exaggerated sense of self-importance and an inability or degraded ability to interact socially with others--parts of the brain associated with social functioning are damaged or shriveled in sociopaths/psychopaths.

Effectively, being a sociopath is the equivalent of being socially retarded and leaves on at a distance with an inability to understand certain behaviors of others--which often leads to bizarre behaviors as an effort of self-validation in an imagined relation to other people.

It's actually pretty sad when it's a full-blown case.

Cool.  I had a roommate who was bipolar and paranoid schizophrenic.  There's nothing glamorous about any kind of mental illness.

I don't think having apathological distrust/dislike of bankers and/or politicians is a sign of 'mental illness'.

Wow....just used my bung hand to type this....

I don't like beans and it ain't because they're musical fruit. But seriously...five years ago I was homeless, hanging out at a dayroom and seeing different types of mental illness in various clients that came there. I won't go into what I experienced but its no joke. It can be debilitating and you can't help but feel for them.

No, it doesn't, but that's not my issue.  I do suffer with clinical depression and anxiety issues.  It's mostly due to my physical ailments [spine disease, arthritis, and injury induced vertigo], but I also get quite down when I've run out of beer.

Oh, and I don't have a pathalogical distrust/dislike of all bankers.  I met one I liked once.... was interred 6ft under at Worrel View Cemetery. 

About that!  The "bung hand', that is.  I won't say who suggested it, but she reckons it's cramped up from too much wanking.  Fankly, I don't believe it!  In fact I proffered my own theory that it was too many Gps and holding all those red flags, but she wouldn't have a bar of it.... reckoned ya should've changed hands more often.

Nah, seriously, I know what it's like to live with a disability and it's not that easy.  I have daily difficulties, as I'm sure you do, so I never take it for cranted when I can do something that others can't.  I have a friend named Lindsay who has the same affliction as you, but he also has it in his feet and behind one knee, meaning he has an uneven gait that causes stress to his better leg.  Now he has an arthritic hip and knee in that leg... and I'll hazard a guess that he'll have spinal issues later in life due to the imbalance. 

That's what happened to both my sister and I... spinal issues due to the imbalance of bung hips and knees, tho Shaunna reckons it's cos of too much shaggin' when I was younger. That Might be true, the shaggin' bit, that is, but the bone disease/arthritis is actually hereditary.  My mother and her sister suffer it, as did their mother grandmother before them, along with many other members from that side of the family.

Thing is, there are others worse off than I, and I can still put a smile on my face, so I'm good.