Psychopaths have less self talk

I was asked to weight on Elon Musk’s smoking a spliff on the Joe Rogan podcast and videocast from Friday. Smoking a joint is irrelevant when a person does it private. However, the circumstances of such thing bare weight. The fact that Rogan offered the thing (Musk is not the only one to have smoked on that show, I believe Jordan B. Peterson did too) and Musk accepting shows a lack of alpha male consistency in Musk. Caving in to peer pressure, caving in to buddy pressure, caving in to any female demands, is not compatible to what I call the “Max Cantor alpha make.” This is especially true if Musk smoked for the first time. If it was me on that show, without insulting the host, without showing disrespect of a buddies-cozy-atmosphere, I would have said: “I don’t smoke while I drink” or “I’ll take it home for leftovers.” or “I can’t do it on an empty stomach.” I would have reach out for it, take it, and put it in my pocket. Once again, notice simply taking it relieves the pressure on the host, it’s not disrespectful, and it doesn’t leave the “he’s not cool” aftertaste to the audience. Of course, someone more aggressive could have escalated this and say: “I smoke it when you smoke LSD” but that is already a conflict, may be an insult remark to the host, and may be costing you his goodwill.

“As an alpha male, you don’t do anything for the first time in public or while being recorded.” -Max Cantor

In my book I talk about psychopaths in Chapters 8 and 9. It is no secret most leaders are psychopaths, from the top-ranking CEOs to some controlling parents. It may help you to know psychopaths have way less “self-talk” (conversations with themselves, or internal chatter). Contrary to popular belief, they don’t have more “positive” self talk and less “negative” self talk. They simply have less self talk. I am considering adding some exercises for reducing self talk in the bonus material. Mind chatter is an obstacle to optimum performance, no matter what you do or what the situation is.

Meanwhile, this video might help if you are struggling with negative self talk.

Do you have a future event and you’re thinking a lot about it? Perhaps a reunion, interview, assessment?

Most of the people I know don’t have the recurring thought introduced in the above video “I’m stupid” or “I’m a loser” but they replay the dominant thought of the day. That is a continuous struggle.

Or post-event, are you ruminating continuously? “Look what he did to me”, “That didn’t go too well”, “What’s going to happen?”

This is where you want to see change. Psychopaths control their thoughts, they don’t let their thoughts run ahead of themselves.