Around 4% of our population are in the psychopath/sociopaths category (including extreme narcissists).
That is 4 people in a hundred, folks....and you know 100 people , right?
Which 4 of the people you know are in that category? None?
None is probably the most common answer. It is probably - mathematically speaking - incorrect.
Coming from a background of an in inordinately large amount of 'these people', I have spent time studying this subject.
The blindness to seeing 'them', is their strength.
If shown to light, the social pattern of behaviors is generally massive destruction, or more frequently - moving on to another social circle entirely.
Identifying these individuals is the problem...
Anyone who has ever played any amount of racquet sports can grasp the problem facing us.
I know that sounds strange, but just bear with me on this...
Left handed people make up around 12% of the worlds population. That is 3x more than the personality types I just mentioned.
That makes them a lot more less noticeable ...and if only it were as easy as that.
As a racquet sports player (I was pretty talented), I had a massive advantage over my opponents.
Why?
I am a 'lefty' – in my natural hand choice , not politics- I hasten to add.
I played right handed players 90% - or more- of the time.
On the other hand (no pun intended) right handed players rarely played a left hander.
The backhand shots played, went to my forehand, and vice versa - the opposite places they were intended – because I was left handed.
They then had to start to 'think' - consciously, and change their game accordingly once they knew this fact.
But shots had to be thought about, not instinctively executed.
And thus giving me a very big advantage..
I was always left handed of course - and I didn't need to think about the game play in the slightest – for me, I was playing on my instincts of being left handed.
And when I did play a left hander ?- it was hard
And so it is with spotting psychopaths/sociopaths.
They have played with the same 'hand' all their life, of lies, deception, mind games. It is their instinct, and not learned.
'We' - the psychological right handers if you will -mostly play against other right handers (96% of the time in fact) regular people, and we don't have to think about interactions of duplicity, mind games, and deceptions.
IT IS NOT HOW WE ARE BUILT.
And this puts 'us' at a constant disadvantage.
What the sociopaths are doing quite naturally, are 'mind movements' for 'us' - we have to think about them.
The answer to this problem?- I only wish I knew.
Play more tennis? lol
If I did know I would be rich, or dead..... But I'm working on it.... (the rich part, not the dead part)
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