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different colors....but they all exist very nicely in the same box. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>DonaldH675@aol.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, April 18, 2005 6:11
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Vision2020] The
Sociopath Next Door</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:black'>Visionaries:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:black'>Last night on the
Auntie E and Brother Carl radio show, Auntie read some excerpts from the
recently published<em><i><font face=Georgia><span style='font-family:Georgia'>The
Sociopath Next Door</span></font></i></em> by Martha Stout, Ph.D.,
Harvard Medical School, Broadway Books, (a division of Random House)
2005. Dr. Stout maintains that one out of 25 "ordinary
Americans" is without a conscience, i.e. sociopathic. Auntie
read some of the identifying characteristics of this personality type
on air. I wanted to share a few more with v2020 readers. Remember,
very few sociopaths are serial killers or rapists, but they do effectively
destroy lives in other ways.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:black'>"You [i.e. the
sociopath] become unimaginably, unassailably, and maybe even globally
successful. Why not? With your big brain, and no conscience to rein
in your schemes <em><i><font face=Georgia><span style='font-family:Georgia'>you
can do anything at all.</span></font></i></em><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:black'>Or no--let us say you
are not quite such a person. Your are ambitious, yes, and in the name of
success you are willing to do all manner of things that people with conscience
would never consider, but you are not an intellectually gifted
individual. Your intelligence is above average perhaps, and people think
of you as smart, maybe even very smart. But you know in your heart of
hearts that you do not have the cognitive wherewithal, or the creativity, to
reach the careening heights of power you secretly dream about, and this makes
you resentful of the world at large, and envious of the people around you....<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:black'>As this sort of
person, you ensconce yourself in a niche, or maybe a series of niches, in which
you can have some amount of control over small numbers of people. .... you
do enjoy jobs that afford you a certain under-supervised control over a few
individuals or small groups, preferably people and groups who are relatively
helpless or in some way vulnerable. ...Whatever your job, you
manipulate and bully the people who are under your thumb, as often and as
outrageously as you can without getting fired or held accountable. You do
this for its own sake, even when it serves no purpose except to give you a
thrill. Making people jump means you have power - or this is the way you
see it - and bullying provides you with an adrenaline rush.....And this is
power, especially when the people you manipulate are superior to you in some
way. Most invigorating of all is to bring down people who are smarter or
more accomplished than you, or perhaps classier, more attractive or popular or
morally admirable. pg 3-4<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:black'>"One of the more
frequently observed of these traits [sociopathic] is a glib and superficial
charm that allows the true sociopath to seduce other people, figuratively or
literally--a kind of glow or charisma that, initially, can make the sociopath
seem more charming or more interesting than most of the normal people around
him. He or she is more spontaneous, or more intense, or somehow more
"complex", or sexier, or more entertaining that everyone else.
Sometimes this "sociopathic charisma" is accompanied by a grandiose
sense of self-worth that may be compelling at first, but upon closer
inspection may seem odd or perhaps laughable. ("Someday the world
will realize how special I am.") pg. 7<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:black'>"Sociopaths are
infamous for their refusal to acknowledge responsibility for the decisions they
make, or for the outcomes of their decisions. In fact, a refusal to see
the results of one's bad behavior as having anything to do with ones self
- "consistent irresponsibility" in the language of the American
Psychiatric Association - is a corner stone of the antisocial personality. pgs
49 -50.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:black'>"When deciding
whom to trust, bear in mind that the combination of consistently bad or
egregiously inadequate behavior with frequent plays for your pity is as close
to a warning mark on a conscienceless person's forehead as you will ever be
given." pg.109<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:black'>Dr. Stout, does not
offer a hopeful outcome for these personality types - after all,
they can not acknowledge that <u>they</u> are the problem.
Consequently, therapy does not provide insight or impetus
for change. However, for the rest of us - the book is a useful tool to
learn to recognize and avoid these folks.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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