Social Media Has Made Us Narcissists — But There Is a Cure
Here's a quick self-assessment to find out whether your ego is detached from real achievement.
00:00 Here are some questions typically used in research to evaluate non-clinical narcissism.
01:31 What is narcissism?
02:00 Why does it seem like there are so many narcissists today?
02:50 Is this why it seems like everyone wants to be famous?
03:45 We’ve seen the “Kardashian-ization” of success.
04:53 What can I do to counter the effects of digital narcissism?
05:55 It’s hard to get better at anything if you believe your own self-hype.
Business psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic says there’s been an alarming rise in the percentage of young adults who expect to become famous, and they’re mostly headed for disappointment. Luckily, there is a fairly straightforward way to battle narcissism.
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is the Chief Innovation Officer at ManpowerGroup, a professor of business psychology at University College London and at Columbia University, co-founder of deepersignals.com, and an associate at Harvard’s Entrepreneurial Finance Lab. His latest book is “I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique” https://www.amazon.com/dp/B099KQV3ZJ.
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00:00 Here are some questions typically used in research to evaluate non-clinical narcissism.
01:31 What is narcissism?
02:00 Why does it seem like there are so many narcissists today?
02:50 Is this why it seems like everyone wants to be famous?
03:45 We’ve seen the “Kardashian-ization” of success.
04:53 What can I do to counter the effects of digital narcissism?
05:55 It’s hard to get better at anything if you believe your own self-hype.
Business psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic says there’s been an alarming rise in the percentage of young adults who expect to become famous, and they’re mostly headed for disappointment. Luckily, there is a fairly straightforward way to battle narcissism.
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is the Chief Innovation Officer at ManpowerGroup, a professor of business psychology at University College London and at Columbia University, co-founder of deepersignals.com, and an associate at Harvard’s Entrepreneurial Finance Lab. His latest book is “I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique” https://www.amazon.com/dp/B099KQV3ZJ.
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