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you can't run away from them you can't
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run away from your Shadow your dark side
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you can make it work for you you can
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make it positive and productive and
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healthy you can become a healthy
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narcissist you can use your dark side
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for positive
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purposes we all have this idea like in
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the laws of human nature I write about
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irrationality Envy aggression weo or
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narcissism narcissism is a good one oh
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they're a narcissist I'm not a
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narcissist I'm not self-absorbed but
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they are yeah yeah I don't have any of
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those traits well Dam it every single
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human being has self-absorption traits
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we can't help it we naturally think of
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ourselves first yes there are people who
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are much deeper narcissists in life no
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doubt and there are toxic narcissists
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but we all have a touch of it I want you
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to be a little more humble in this world
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and not be so arrogant and not think
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that you are somehow EX exempt from
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having a dark side that somehow you were
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born with a halo over your head that you
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were born different you don't have human
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nature that you're a saintly person
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you're much better get rid of your moral
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superiority because I find that deeply
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offensive we are all Cut From the Same
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Cloth we all have the same flaws and
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when you look at yourself and when I
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wrote the laws of human nature I'm going
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damn it
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Robert you you have a dark side you're a
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narcissist you know I had to come come
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to terms with my irrationality my
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grandiosity my aggressive instincts but
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it's the only way to change yourself is
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to be aware that you have these issues I
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have the narcissistic tendency now I see
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it all right now when they pop up pop up
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I can control it better I can say damn
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Robert you're being too self-absorbed to
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think more about the other person but if
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you go around in life thinking I don't
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have any of these problems I'm not a
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narcissist you're never going to have
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the awareness to stop the fact that you
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are actually one being a narcissist is
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that objectively a good or a bad thing
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because when you when you was obviously
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I know people that it's a bad thing is
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narcissist caus a lot of harm and that's
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very true but in the context of the
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human animal and why the human animal
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develops certain attributes and
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qualities to to you know maybe further
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its survival or its ability to stay
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within the social pack is it just a
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consequence of being a human to have
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these like Shadow traits and to be
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coercive and manipulative is it good or
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is it bad or is it neither it's neither
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neither um because it just is right um
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so with narcissism for instance um
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there's a reason why we're narcissists
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so I explain in the book it's not my own
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Theory it comes from some great
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psychologists like kohoot the origins of
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narcissism right so when you're
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have to leave you when your parents have
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to kind of not abandon you but have to
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not give you as much attention as you
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used to have and you're three years old
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or four years old you don't remember it
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but it was very
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painful like oh they don't love me as
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much what's wrong with me right you know
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I have to get that love and attention
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not just naturally I have to do things
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to earn it etc etc and what happens with
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a lot of people in that situation when
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you're a child is
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I have to develop my own I have to be my
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own mother or father I have to find a
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way of loving myself when something bad
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happens I have to retreat Inward and go
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I'm really not so bad at all I'm
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actually a decent person I like my own
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tastes I like the clothes that I wear
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etc etc you're developing the shreds of
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self-esteem right and people who never
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developed that because they were abused
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or they were abandoned or even if they
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were
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suffocated never develop that
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self-esteem and so what happens in life
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is whenever if you don't develop that
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and you get older and people attack you
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and yell at you or criticize you you
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can't Retreat inward to that self-esteem
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that love you have the only thing you
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know is to get angry to get they call it
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narcissistic rage and to yell at people
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and say God get away from me you're evil
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etc etc etc right and then the other
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problems evolve where the only way I
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don't have that inner self-esteem the
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only way I get people to love me is by
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being incredibly dramatic and overly
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dramatic etc etc etc and always making
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myself the center of attention that's
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what creates a deep narcissist that's
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their only way of getting the love that
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they need so children we all need that
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degree of self-esteem that anchor in our
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life so narcissism self-love is not bad
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thing but what happens is as you get
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older if you go too deep into it it
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becomes a problem and so what I say is
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you need to take that
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selflove and it's that has a good
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function and turn it outward slow as
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much you can and turn into empathy and
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love and consideration for other people
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more that's your task as you get older
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in life that's how I approach all of
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these flaws you can't run away from them
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you can't run away from your shadow Dark
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Side you can make it work for you you
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can make it positive and productive and
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healthy you can become a healthy
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narcissist which is a a name that I use
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in the book you can use your dark side
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for positive purposes let's say you have
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a lot of anger in your inside and I had
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a lot of anger when I was younger I was
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a very angry young man right channel
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that into some kind of
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cause like and you know I have a lot of
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causes that I believe in very deeply and
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when I was younger I was like that
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channel that energy into something
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productive and helpful and put it into
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something that it goes to something that
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helps Society that's using your dark
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side for positive purposes because the
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Dark Side Of Human Nature has a lot of
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creativity has a lot of energy an artist
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has to have a dark side you use your
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dark side because all those dark
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emotions all the people that shat on you
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in your life they inspire you they
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create your best work don't run away
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from your Shadow don't run away from
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your narcissism use it in a in a healthy
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way