Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Being Self-Centered is Bad ?

I read this book 'Snakes in Suits' which mentioned the traits of people who are psychopaths and are not suitable for the organisation. The authors say that the psychopaths are selfish and don't have a moral conscience if somebody's loss is going to help them.
It provoked me to think what is bad in making things work for you even if it goes against you ?
The organisations which really hire people like the authors to check out the psychological state of a candidate sometimes don't have a moral conscience for themselves. I wonder how many big organisations are there in the world who are following the best moral practises and never made any mistake.
One more thing was who gave authority to these authors that they can decide about others? I don't think that education only can grant it.
When you question others morality than they may give a counter argument who are we to ask such questions and who are these guys who think that they are always right or they never fell for anything ?
But these questions can never be answered rationally, no matter who is trying to.
From our point of view all of us are right and we don't care about what others think about us.
So this is going to stay like that but the most important thing is that its good to have a sense of moral responsibility for everything we're attached with (directly or indirectly). It may not sound practical but it will definitely help us to take decisions in real life.
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Snakes in Suits by Paul Babiak and Robert D. Hare

This book was published long back and its a well documented record of people who are called
psychopaths (its a mean word in psychiatry). The two authors have a wide experience in working with the big corporations to profile the potential candidates for the key positions.They actually tell which candidate can be harmful for the organzation.
The book has an interesting narrative and it moves like a story along with the inputs from the authors. I must say that even a subject like psychiatry is presented in a interesting manner. It captures your attention when it identifies the traits which a possible psychopath may exhibit.
The whole book is full of live examples how the psychopaths may behave. But the authors warn the readers not to judge the people around them on the basis of criteria mentiond in the book. They say that it should be done by a proper psychiatrist and his results should be based on rationality.
One thing that I understood from this book was that not all the people who are a bit deviant in behavior are not psychopaths. In fact, psychopathic traits can be seen by everybody in some or other way but when it becomes a inherent trait of that person than it may pose a threat to the organization or the people working with that person.
The only thing I want to suggest here is that people who are going to read this book or have already read this book should avoid to be a stereotype and measuring everybody on the given criteria only and calling everybody a psychopath.
The book is fun to read but may not interest the regular readers.
But it has lot many real life examples on psychopaths.