The Good Psychopath's Guide To Success

Focus on what YOU can do instead of what the other person is doing or saying and you’ll find them much easier to deal with.

Though it may offer temporary relief when you’re doing it, every time you procrastinate you sabotage yourself. You place obstacles in your own path. You actually make choices that IMPAIR, rather than ENHANCE, your performance.

‘Do unto YOURself as others would do unto THEMselves.’

The secret of success is this. Train like it means everything when it means nothing – so you can fight like it means nothing when it means everything.”

Camus, the truth was absurdly and brutally simple.

Nothing meant anything anywhere!

But unlike Sartre and Nietzsche, the illusion of meaning was not, for Camus, a guilt-laced fuzzy-headedness that stemmed from the torpor of some moral or religious hangover.

Research has shown that responding to nice people by being nice and to not nice people by being not nice is by far the most effective way forward.

Nietzsche railed against the way that Christianity devalued life as just a warm-up act for the infinitely more rewarding ‘life after death’ – how it advocated turning our backs on what seemed important in the here and now in readiness for life on an eternal, ethereal, more exalted plane of existence.

you happen to be one of the lucky ones, like Five-Talent Man for instance, it just isn’t good enough to rest on your laurels and take it easy on yourself. If you happen to be naturally gifted, the return you get on those gifts should be consistent with the outlay.

A classic experiment conducted back in the 1960s showed that dogs repeatedly given electric shocks with no way of escaping those shocks, subsequently chose to passively accept their fate EVEN WHEN AN ESCAPE ROUTE WAS MADE AVAILABLE TO THEM.