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being very entitled and controlling
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narcissists have no difficulty stepping
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all over your personal boundaries so
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that's why I put together an extensive
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video class called this is me it has 25
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videos written documents guided
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questions I'm going to teach you how to
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have healthy boundaries there's a link
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below and I hope you'll find it to be
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quite therapeutic
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whatever the status of a relationship
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you have whether it's at work or in a
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social setting of course with the people
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that you live with in your immediate
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family or extended family and then in
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organizations Etc in any of the
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relationships that you have one of the
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things that you're going to naturally
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desire is you want to be seen you want
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to be known you want to be understood
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you want to know that that person when
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they engage with you makes an attempts
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to say I want to know who you are I want
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to be able to see the things that you
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see because that makes our relationships
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much more well-rounded now do you ever
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think of a narcissist as being the kind
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of person that does that one of the
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things that tends to inhibit the ability
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to see another individual just for what
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they are is the various biases that we
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bring with us now every one of us has a
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bias for example you can have a a
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religious bias you can have cultural
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biases you know based on where you were
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brought up you got your ethnicity can
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bias you toward the way that you
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interpret life it just your gender can
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can make you interpret things a little
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bit differently and smart and growing
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and healthy individuals will say well
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I'm aware that I have biases and so as I
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engage with other individuals I'm going
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to hold my biases and enough in check so
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that I can know you and there's not
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going to be this superimposing kind of a
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mindset that they bring narcissists
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though have biases that uh that will
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greatly inhibit their ability to know
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you and see you for what you are and
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there are specifically two biases that
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they hold that go beyond the the ones
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that I just mentioned uh first uh
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narcissists hold what we refer to as a
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competence bias now what I mean by
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competence bias is in their mind they
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think well
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I'm a pretty smart person and I really
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do know who I am I have a lot of
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competence in fact I have an
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intelligence and an insight and
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knowledge that the average person out
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there just doesn't have and so they have
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a pretty strong uh impression of who
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they are in that regard and then a
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second bias they have and this is one
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that's very familiar to many people is
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what we refer to as the confirmation
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bias and in a confirmation bias
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basically they seek evidences whether
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it's accurate or not to prove how right
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they are and how wrong someone else is
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for example taking those two ingredients
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together the competence bias and the
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confirmation bias let's just use a
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simple illustration that you know where
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you realize that you're at a different
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place of managing things than that
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narcissist and you make you make a
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statement about that you say hey I'm
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thinking differently from you and and
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I'd like for you to consider this
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instead of that
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in their competence wise the the
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narcissists can think well you're wrong
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I have to be right and so their bias
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naturally presumes that you don't know
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what you're talking about and then when
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you say well but I I really do believe
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in what I'm saying here then in their
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confirmation bias they'll say see this
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illustrates how argumentative you are
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and it's it's a can't win kind of a
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situation for you and it's the ultimate
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frustration because you walk away
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thinking this person doesn't know me
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this person doesn't see me for who I am
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they don't care what I bring to the
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equation it's all about that other
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individual and the narcissist is
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thinking no it's not that it's just I
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know more than you and I I just make
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more sense than you do and you keep
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proving why I need to just uh dismiss
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you and Elevate myself that's how they
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operate and the net result is the
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narcissist is going to have all sorts of
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patterns and predictabilities for
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example one of the first things you're
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going to notice is they're going to
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operate under the assumption that says
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don't bother me with the truth because
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my mind is already made up how many
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times have you engaged with that person
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who clearly doesn't understand you you
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try to bring them up to speed and it's
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like look whatever is true that you
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think forget it I already know
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everything
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uh likewise when you encounter that
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narcissist who have these biases you're
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going to notice they have a very strong
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lack of curiosity but then that's also
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going to turn into a very strong
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inclination towards criticism not only
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are they not curious about who they are
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they just criticize what they see in you
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rather than thinking I wonder what that
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means I wonder what I can learn from you
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they don't think that way
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being over confident in themselves with
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that competence bias they don't learn
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they don't feel like they have to take
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in any kind of input at all instead as
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you attempt to talk with them about some
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of the things that they could learn or
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know more fully what you'll get is lots
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of rationalization and justification
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these folks can be absurdly defensive
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when it comes to the thought that says
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you might be able to pick up on some new
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information in their competence bias
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it's like
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um no I don't need that and then again
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uh when you uh hold on to your ground
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it's like you're just the most difficult
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person I want to know and you can they
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they confirm uh what makes them feel
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better whether it's accurate or not it's
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a whole different story likewise these
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individuals tend to gravitate toward
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other persons who will share their
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biases with them
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as a result uh they they don't want to
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be stretched they don't want to be
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challenged they like to be around yes
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people flying monkeys and all the rest
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uh in addition these individuals tend to
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be very strongly inclined toward black
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and white thinking uh being able to come
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to terms with nuances or just what your
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back story is or your unique set of
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circumstances that you might be drawing
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upon it's like I don't care about that
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if it's anything different from me then
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it's just it's just immaterial and as a
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result they don't blend I mean like when
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I say they don't blend at all and so the
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uh you can summarize that narcissist who
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is unable to see you for what you are or
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appreciate you for what you are and has
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these this competence and this
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confirmation bias that they bring you
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can summarize their mindset by them
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saying to you look I know so many things
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that you don't know and you keep proving
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me right that's how they operate and so
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this has multiple implications for you
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as you're trying to come to terms with
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these individuals and first and foremost
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we're going to say keep in mind knowing
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that they have the bias that they have
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against you your attempts to explain
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your reasoning is not going to go well
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you're going to be naturally ridiculed
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and mocked and invalidated and then when
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you say we need to we need to have a
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better atmosphere around here come on
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they're going to think we sure do and it
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needs to conform with me they insist
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upon Conformity because you're the one
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that's wrong of course that's part of
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the uh you can see that it flows real
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quickly into the victim mindset that
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they carry another implication this has
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for you is you're never going to hear
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that narcissistic person say I was wrong
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or I'm sorry will you forgive me because
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they're the competent person in the room
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you're the one that's not and then your
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disagreement with them just illustrates
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like you're the one that needs to
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apologize to me that and again that's
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how they think another implication this
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is going to have for you and this is so
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important for you to remember and that
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is any assertiveness that you have with
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that narcissist is going to be a solo
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effort now noticed that I didn't say
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don't even try to be assertive with that
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person or don't try to set boundaries
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many times people will say well I tried
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to set boundaries or I tried to be
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asserted and it didn't work and what
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they mean is the other person didn't
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appreciate what I was saying or doing
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that about me establishing mild and
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distinctive keep in mind they don't want
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to see you for who you are they don't
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want to know you but it doesn't mean
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that you can't lean into your own
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distinctive anyway it's just going to be
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a solo effort and you're not going to be
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understood but you need to stand up for
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yourself anyway
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and that being the case you're going to
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be met with lots of defensiveness and
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whatever relationship you have with that
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person is going to be both superficial
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and it's going to be fragile at best
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because it's only a matter of time
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before it's just going to collapse
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simply because they can't deal with
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anything beyond you affirming their
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competence
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Etc
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so uh The Narcissist honestly does
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believe that they have the greater
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competence and uh whenever you show your
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differences uh sure enough they think of
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that as further proof that you are just
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a foreign in their side and they just
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can't stand being with you and it can be
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very insulting to you to know that
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you're not seen you're not heard your
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thoughts and feelings and
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interpretations you simply don't
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register and so by default that
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narcissistic person is going to hold you
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in low regard But ultimately I think
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we're going to need to remind ourselves
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it's it's your belief in yourself that
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matters most they don't see you for who
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you are they don't appreciate your
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distinctives but I I just have some
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simple questions that I hope you can ask
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of yourself and that is are you an
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honest person in their biases and then
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their rationalizations narcissists are
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not too committed to truth which means
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honesty are you a trustworthy person are
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you someone who's committed to personal
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Improvement are you in a learning
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process do you appreciate new ideas are
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you somebody that operates with a team
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mindset in other words you actually can
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coordinate do you respect other
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individuals uniqueness are you the kind
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of person that respects another person's
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different emotional responses or
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attitudes and I'm hoping that ASU can
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affirm that you do bring these kinds of
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full elements to your personality into
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the equation and the narcissists just
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keep saying well I'm the smart one in
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the person and you keep proving how
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you're in it let them handle in every
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opinion they want to have let them have
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whatever their biases are going to have
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you're not going to make them any
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different
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and competent uh people and keep in mind
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their competency bias competent people
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know how much they need still to learn
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and they they actually understand that
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there are elements where they have a
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certain ignorance and instead of saying
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no we can't we can't go there they
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embrace it uh but you see narcissists
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are too insecure and they're too fragile
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to say you know I I have a competence
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but I don't have all the competence in
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the room
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um they're they're uh their ego is far
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too weak they're not able to enter into
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that space keep that in mind as you
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engage with them
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I hope the video such as this can give
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you some good awareness about what
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you're dealing with if you've not
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about making good connections with
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boundaries free to be finding yourself
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despite the controllers we have my
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website I'm Excuse me we have about
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webinars we also have a website we have
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my surviving narcissism podcasts and my
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books plenty of resources
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okay you may actually walk away from
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that narcissistic person repeatedly
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thinking that person doesn't see me for
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who I am and that's just part of the
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equation to factor that in but I hope
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like I say that you can see yourself
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accurately and in doing so it's it sets
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you up to be a person of steadiness
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which then allows you to find peace I so
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hope that you can find your peace
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foreign
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