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The Wisdom of Psychopaths
Kevin Dutton
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Psychology
Self-growth
Leadership
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What if the most successful CEOs share traits with psychopaths? Kevin Dutton's provocative exploration reveals how fearlessness and focus - qualities found in saints, spies, and killers - might be the secret ingredients to thriving in modern society. The author even temporarily became a psychopath to prove it.

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A market trader once sold eleven-month calendars missing January by spinning it as "a unique opportunity" with "an extra month thrown in next year for free." This man-charming, fearless, utterly shameless-possessed what most would call psychopathic traits. Yet these same qualities made him exceptionally successful, never panicking under pressure, always turning disaster into profit. This wasn't a criminal mastermind. This was Kevin Dutton's father. And this paradox sits at the heart of a provocative question: What if the personality traits we most fear could actually teach us something valuable about thriving in modern life? We've been taught to see psychopaths as monsters lurking in shadows-Hannibal Lecter with his fava beans, Ted Bundy with his victims. But what if psychopathy isn't a binary switch between normal and monster? What if it's more like a mixing board, with different dials calibrated to different levels in each of us? This reframing changes everything. Suddenly we're not talking about "them versus us" but about a spectrum we all inhabit, where the same traits that create serial killers might also create surgeons, soldiers, and successful entrepreneurs.

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Learning from the Dark Side

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