In Kevin Dutton’s book The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success, he presents the following side-by-side list of occupations that have the most psychopaths (CEOs) and the least (Care Aides).
Umm… nobody look at #6. And as a reminder, here’s the definition of “psychopath.”
Psychopathy is a personality disorder that has been variously described as characterized by shallow emotions (in particular reduced fear), stress tolerance, lacking empathy, coldheartedness, lacking guilt, egocentricity, superficial character, manipulativeness, irresponsibility, impulsivity and antisocial behaviors such as parasitic lifestyle and criminality.
Yep, that sounds about right.
(via Eric Barker)
Surgeon and Chef? Really? Then how did Doctor end up in least psycho…maybe Plastic Surgeons a la Nip/Tuck?
Journalist makes sense though, just look at Hallett and Mirk – I wouldn’t trust either with the $7 in my wallet.
So, surgeon is in the plus column and doctor isn’t. What else did the author pull out of his ass?
The author probably should have used “physician” instead of “doctor.”
Although they’ve been part of the same profession for well over a century, and even though many doctors fill both roles, the job of a physician and the job of a surgeon are fundamentally different.
Physicians diagnose and treat diseases with their minds. Surgeons do that, but most fundamentally treat diseases with their hands. They are technicians. They can do their jobs well with no empathy whatsoever for their patients. Physicians can’t.
And chefs…. that profession is open to every breed of scumfuck out there. Not that all chefs are scumfucks… but I think the chefs reading this must know what I’m talking about.
Signed,
Number two on the + list.