The Wisdom of Psychopaths

Rain Man and A Beautiful Mind, when it comes to autism and schizophrenia. In his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

can we ‘catch’ fear in the same way we catch a cold?

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colours, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity. – Herman Melville

Foundation for the Study of Personality in History,

confidence.

ASPD is psychopathy with added emotion. Psychopathy is an emotionless void.

Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism – think OCEAN – constitute the genome of human personality.

to ‘step out of their own shoes’ and into those of their prey, and thus reliably predict its deft, innate trajectories of evasion: its routes and machinations of escape.

sanguine, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic.