The Wisdom of Psychopaths

allows those who present with it to do what they like when they like, completely unfazed by the social, moral or legal consequences of their actions.

Emotion is entropy, and seriously bad for business. I’ve hunted it down to extinction over the years.’

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

interpersonal difficulties

emotional distress

hot empathy.

He saw it as a selling point.

pivot solely around self-discipline? Everything else being equal, such a possibility might actually hold some water. The ability to delay gratification, to put on hold the desire to cut and run (and also, needless to say, to run and cut), might well tip the balance away from criminal activity towards a more structured, less impulsive, less antisoci

Neuroticism and Agreeableness.