Masters of Manipulation: How to Spot Narcissists, and How to Deal with Them
Unfortunately for Belladonna’s position, many, perhaps most, of the most accomplished people in the world have at least a touch of narcissism. Nothing of any substance was ever accomplished by reasonable people. It’s the unreasonable people who make human progress. Reasonable people are the sheepish masses.
You can find narcissistic behaviors in many entrepreneurs and inventors.
One almost has to be narcissistic to insist on being right when everyone says you’re wrong.
Also, I think Ms. Rogers is conflating people who are narcissistically impaired with those who have full blown narcissistic personality disorder. Folks with NPD are indeed monstrous, but less disordered narcissists are indeed capable of expressing gratitude and remorse. That’s why you’ll find plenty of narcissists in psychotherapy but rarely someone with NPD. Basically, if you have a conscience, you don’t have NPD.
