The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us......

[HuskyMan]

"A recent book claims to have pinpointed the top 10 jobs most likely to attract psychopaths — one of which hits particularly close to home for us here at TheBlaze.
As flagged by AOL Jobs last week, psychologist author Kevin Dutton argues in “The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success” that “a number of psychopathic attributes [are] actually more common in business leaders than in so-called disturbed criminals — attributes such as superficial charm, egocentricity, persuasiveness, lack of empathy, independence, and focus.”
Basically, certain fields of work are more likely to attract psychopaths than others.
Here’s the list of jobs with the highest rates of psychopathy:

1. CEO
2. Lawyer
3. Media (Television/Radio)
4. Salesperson
5. Surgeon
6. Journalist
7. Police Officer
8. Clergy person
9. Chef
10. Civil Servant

And the lowest rates of psychopathy:

1. Care Aide
2. Nurse
3. Therapist
4. Craftsperson
5. Beautician/Stylist
6. Charity Worker
7. Teacher
8. Creative Artist
9. Doctor
10. Accountant

Does your field fall into either list? Let us know in the comments?"


from "The Blaze"


The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success: Kevin Dutton: 9780374291358: Amazon.com: Books

[kerry]

Interesting that soldiers aren't on the list. Here's an interesting piece that suggests we can make psychopaths:

The Psychopath Makeover - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

[barry12345]

Truly enjoying the trappings of success with those inherent personality disorders at the same time might not be workable. People like that to me seem to get off on their abnormal behaviours being applied. Or the planning of them as little is spontainious in my opinion.

Simply put they find enjoyment in their applications of behaviours more than anything else. That to me is why their minds tend to be somewhat preocupied with what they want to do. Doing it is probably the enjoyment factor in itself.

[aklim]

Not sure if I would believe the weatherman, politician, voodoo queen or psychologist or which one I think is more reliable.

[layback40]

Originally Posted by HuskyMan

"A recent book claims to have pinpointed the top 10 jobs most likely to attract psychopaths — one of which hits particularly close to home for us here at TheBlaze.
As flagged by AOL Jobs last week, psychologist author Kevin Dutton argues in “The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success” that “a number of psychopathic attributes [are] actually more common in business leaders than in so-called disturbed criminals — attributes such as superficial charm, egocentricity, persuasiveness, lack of empathy, independence, and focus.”
Basically, certain fields of work are more likely to attract psychopaths than others.
Here’s the list of jobs with the highest rates of psychopathy:

1. CEO
2. Lawyer
3. Media (Television/Radio)
4. Salesperson
5. Surgeon
6. Journalist
7. Police Officer
8. Clergy person
9. Chef
10. Civil Servant

And the lowest rates of psychopathy:

1. Care Aide
2. Nurse
3. Therapist
4. Craftsperson
5. Beautician/Stylist
6. Charity Worker
7. Teacher
8. Creative Artist
9. Doctor
10. Accountant

Does your field fall into either list? Let us know in the comments?"

not so much the jib title. You will see the 10 top ones are people in authority. Their non authoritarian understudies are in the least likely group.

[The Swede]

#3. The-rapist