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The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

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In this engrossing journey into the lives of psychopaths and their infamously crafty behaviors, the renowned psychologist Kevin Dutton reveals that there’s a scale of “madness” along which we all sit. Incorporating the up to date advances in brain scanning and neuroscience, Dutton demonstrates that the brilliant neurosurgeon who lacks empathy has more in common with a Ted Bundy who kills for pleasure than we may need to admit, and that a mugger in a dimly lit parking lot may well, if truth be told, have the same nerveless poise as a titan of industry.

Dutton argues that there are indeed “functional psychopaths” among us―different from their murderous counterparts―who use their detached, unflinching, and charismatic personalities to achieve mainstream society, and that shockingly, in some fields, the more “psychopathic” people are, the more likely they’re to succeed. Dutton deconstructs this frequently misunderstood diagnosis through bold on-the-ground reporting and original scientific research as he mingles with the criminally insane in a high-security ward, shares a drink with one of the crucial world’s most successful con artists, and undergoes transcranial magnetic stimulation to discover firsthand exactly how it feels to see through the eyes of a psychopath.

As Dutton develops his theory that we all possess psychopathic tendencies, he puts forward the argument that society as a whole is more psychopathic than ever: finally, psychopaths have a tendency to be fearless, confident, charming, ruthless, and focused―qualities that are tailor-made for success in the twenty-first century. Provocative at every turn, The Wisdom of Psychopaths is a riveting adventure that reveals that it’s our much-maligned dark side that frequently conceals the trump cards of success.

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