psychopaths | Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude© https://wallstreetdealmaker.com He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. Sun, 22 Aug 2021 03:00:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/wallstreetdealmaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/pitbullgif.gif?fit=32%2C22&ssl=1 psychopaths | Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude© https://wallstreetdealmaker.com 32 32 155119938 The psychopathic stare https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2021/08/the-psychopathic-stare/ https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2021/08/the-psychopathic-stare/#comments Sun, 22 Aug 2021 02:55:59 +0000 https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/?p=2470 In the Book of the Underdog I touched on the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), which measures interpersonal, affective, lifestyle, and developmental and antisocial traits related to psychopathy. [In the U.S., people who score at least 30 out of 40 are generally classified as psychopathic. The inmates’ scores ranged from 3.2 … Continue ReadingThe psychopathic stare

The post The psychopathic stare first appeared on Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©.]]> In the Book of the Underdog I touched on the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), which measures interpersonal, affective, lifestyle, and developmental and antisocial traits related to psychopathy. [In the U.S., people who score at least 30 out of 40 are generally classified as psychopathic. The inmates’ scores ranged from 3.2 to 37, with a mean of 20.35.] Bigthink, a popular science online site has picked up on a n new study published in the Journal of Research in Personality that shows psychopaths don’t move their heads while talking.

“The study used AI to analyze videotaped interviews with 507 male inmates in New Mexico. During each interview, which lasted between one and four hours, the inmate sat directly across from an interviewer and a camera that was outfitted with tracking algorithms to record head movements.”

BigThink, citing The Journal of Research in Personality

The biggest psychopath, however, is the Snake in a Suit C-Suite

Yes, we have a post on that since 2017. We’ve seen them all, Silicon Valley-types, Wall Street-types and CEO-types.

They put the New Mexico prison inmates to shame.

The study, “Quantifying the psychopathic stare: Automated assessment of head motion is related to antisocial traits in forensic interviews“, was authored by Aparna R. Gullapalli, Nathaniel E. Anderson, Rohit Yerramsetty, Carla L. Harenski, and Kent A. Kiehl

Other men’s blogs have fallen by the wayside: RIP Bold and Determined (2010-2020), WallStreetPlayboys (2012-2021) we are still here. The bosses have castigated us, Facebook has severely restricted us (2021), Twitter has suspended us (in Nov. 2020) but we’re still here 8 years and counting.

Fighting for the rebel. The outcast. The underdog.

Until next time,

Your man,

Max Cantor

The post The psychopathic stare first appeared on Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©.]]> https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2021/08/the-psychopathic-stare/feed/ 4 2470 Psychopaths have less self talk https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2018/09/psychopaths-have-less-self-talk/ https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2018/09/psychopaths-have-less-self-talk/#respond Sun, 09 Sep 2018 06:27:00 +0000 http://wallstreetdealmaker.com/index.php/2018/09/09/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 … Continue ReadingPsychopaths have less self talk

The post Psychopaths have less self talk first appeared on Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©.]]> 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.


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