Though I only met comedian and author Josh Wolf (Chelsea Lately, The Josh Wolf Show, Fairly Normal with Josh Wolf podcast) over Twitter a few weeks before we did this episode I felt like we were fast friends. We chatted about all sorts of stuff including toxic work environments and not wanting to work with assholes, covert assholes, his experience being a young single guy raising three kids, visits from the health department, terrible bangs, how he met his wife and relationships in general, taping socks to his armpits, opening for Sam Kinison at the start of his career, Chelsea Handler and Joey Diaz babysitting his kids, getting kicked out of the ocean and so much more. We also took your questions over Twitter and did a round of Just Me Or Everyone.
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I've been wondering if entertainment pulls in narcissists. I know this doesn't sound groundbreaking, but I mean in the technical senses. Narcissists will see a lot of the aspects of entertainment as features whereas a lot of “normies” will experience them as bugs. Having to have a lot of empathy for thousands of fans (let alone your army of staff whose job it is to manage your image for you) would be exhausting for people who can't turn it off. If you can turn it off, well you may be a psychopath. For another example, narcissism is about having an inauthentic self. Sounds a lot like what actors do for a living. If doing what you do for money doesn't cost you any energy because it is already what you do, that's a pretty big advantage.
I’ve been wondering if entertainment pulls in narcissists. I know this doesn’t sound groundbreaking, but I mean in the technical senses. Narcissists will see a lot of the aspects of entertainment as features whereas a lot of “normies” will experience them as bugs. Having to have a lot of empathy for thousands of fans (let alone your army of staff whose job it is to manage your image for you) would be exhausting for people who can’t turn it off. If you can turn it off, well you may be a psychopath. For another example, narcissism is about having an inauthentic self. Sounds a lot like what actors do for a living. If doing what you do for money doesn’t cost you any energy because it is already what you do, that’s a pretty big advantage.