I mean I was wondering how they manage to get so good at forming ideas on how to manipulate someone or trick someone into doing what they want.
I don’t get how they managed to learn this. I mean I personally cannot figure out how to manipulate or trick someone buy myself, somebody has to teach me.
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There are two main advantages that a dark personality has over someone with a healthy system of empathy:
1. They have a ton of experience at this. Fundamentally, getting good at ***anything*** is just a matter of doing it enough and getting practice, finding out what works and what doesn’t, and adapting the strategy accordingly. Some dark personalities don’t even value their relationships, so they can simply cut ties and move on if they’re exposed.
2. Sociopaths/psychopaths (i.e. those with antisocial personality disorder) can “shut off” their empathy at will, and instead use it as a way of rapidly learning what a person’s pressure points are and predicting how they’ll react when pressed on a specific topic. Individuals with proper empathy have this ability, too, but we use it to gain an intuitive understanding of what’s off-limits so that we can avoid those areas.
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