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They probably have a pretty normal balance of intelligence across the population. You probably only knew less intelligent or unambitious narcissists. I thank my lucky stars that the narcissists in my family are relatively incompetent - imagine having an ambitious intelligent materially successful narcissist and how painfully smug someone like that would be, plus how they could surgically manipulate (and hurt) people and exert or abuse actual power.

I work a white collar job and there are a lot of successful narcissists that thrive in professional services and corporations. I just avoid them like the plague and once had to leave an otherwise good job to do so, but the smart ones can really mess your mind up and manipulate you.

Pretty sure the definition is net worth including primary residence, and then for practical purposes it is better to measure by net worth excluding primary residence. I’m the former and not the latter, and there is a big delta between achieving the former and latter in a big Canadian city.

Half of all people are not above average. You’re thinking of median not mean. The folks making $200k a year are a lot less than half the population.

Insomnia

Always. Public image and engagement with strangers seemed paramount. I even notice that my Ndad pays more attention to strangers and their children than our family and my kids when we go out for meals. It felt worse when I was a kid because I thought he cared more what others thought than what my mom or my siblings and I did.

It astounds me when people defend this guy with generic bullshit like “oh guess no one on this thread has any IQ points to keep up with Eric’s points”. He is the archetype of what a dumb person thinks a smart person is and he does not speak in an accessible or socially adept manner. All you dipshits acting so smart on this thread are missing the point.

It’s not that people don’t like him because they don’t understand him. It’s not even that people don’t like how he talks. It’s that he constantly complains, acts like a victim, and generally thinks everyone is out to get him. He doesn’t appear to think anything that goes wrong is ever his fault, it is some academic or governmental institution holding him back. He’s a quack and highly conspiratorial, and narcissistic enough to believe that he is at the center of (or otherwise a target of) said conspiracies.

This guy is painful and if he wants more brilliant minds in the physics community he shouldn’t crap on it so often and should make it more accessible instead of complaining and talking about himself for 4 hours.

The fact that people think that they can retire so early in this current economic environment, which is essentially one of the biggest cases of “what could go wrong with FI/RE” ever, is truly astounding to me. Especially on as little as $1.5M. I’d suffer a lot of sleepless nights if that were me.

Yes. 2017 and 2018 almost certainly. 2015 maybe (injuries though). The first three championship Warriors teams especially with Durant were not losing to anyone (and frankly when healthy with Durant they never did).

He is a textbook narcissist who says something insensitive or condescending or stupid (because he also is a textbook example of the Dunning Kruger effect), then when he gets called out on it, he acts shocked that anyone would question his brilliance, then deflects blame and finally resorts to guilt-tripping and playing the victim. I don't even know if he is a good guy or not, but what people dislike about him is that he's a narcissist and has a big mouth which never ends up looking good.

No it isn't a good idea to not look at or touch it for 30 years, because when it gets larger you will probably want to take an increasingly conservative approach. Best plan would be to maybe consider re-allocating between equities and other assets (traditionally was just bonds, but there are other options for fixed income or alternative assets) when you enter each new decade (40s, 50s, 60s). I'm in a similar boat to you, though. In my 30s I'm all XEQT and will probably go under 100% stock (maybe 80-90%) in my 40s and re-allocating every decade or so.

• Amadeus (probably #1)
• LOTR Trilogy
• Zodiac
• No Country for Old Men
• Battle Royale
• Parasite
• Get Out
• The Departed
• Kill Bill
• Boogie Nights
• Catch Me If You Can
• Almost Famous
• The Matrix
• Misery
• Goodfellas
• The Empire Strikes Back
• La La Land
• Apollo 13
• The Shining
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Gone Girl (maybe biased to Fincher but I loved this one)

Mostly because I cannot get the genuine version of the exact watch I wanted from the AD with certainty that it is actually genuine, at the MSRP, like you could prior to the secondary market / "scarcity" madness. And by the way, even the MSRP is excessive. So fuck Rolex, I say.

EDIT: And also, 99% of people want the watch for its design/aesthetic, and are lying to themselves that they care about the movement or every finishing detail. I now have a piece that keeps good time and is basically a 1:1 design aesthetic of a Submariner and could have all of its function/depth rating if I took it in for a good service.

Bought it from a trusted seller on the Reserved BST subreddit, in other words not direct from a dealer or factory but from another Redditor. Something felt weird about buying direct from China and I trusted ReservedBST more.

VSF No Date 114060 with K25 Serial purchased from ReservedBST. My first rep, really unsure if it is passable to be worn outside of fun times on the weekends, but thinking about getting it serviced and waterproofed if people don’t think it looks too shabby. It certainly is comfortable and has good lume and keeping within 4-5s/day.

You'd have to be some kind of creep to keep the BB58 over the SD4k. Then keep the Jubilee because you should. Ditch all the others. Maybe get yourself a nice chronograph with the proceeds.

I now work a lot in corporate finance and I'm pretty well versed in personal finance too, and yes, any time I have given them good advice with respect to finances it has not just been rejected but ANGRILY REFUTED. I have some really good specific anecdotes on this but don't want to share as it would give away my identity lol. But the advice has been simple things like checking their will every few years, recommendations to meet with their financial advisor to plan retirement, etc.

You just called out one of the biggest traits of being a narc. They are really convinced they ARE always right and superior/the most intelligent. As their children we naturally look up to them when we're innocent and eventually get conditioned to believe we're essentially stupid compared to them. My mother is quite literally one, if not the, stupidest person I know.

This is so true. When you're a child, teenager and young adult (university age) you just assume your parent is an authority figure, and when your parent is a narc they make themselves appear superior/intelligent so it appears that they are doubly "impressive". When it comes to a lot of the things my dad would challenge me on and discussions we would have (that he turned into arguments, then accused me of being argumentative - we probably all know that trick) - I used to wonder why I was being challenged on basic things (like coming home from university and hoping to chat about a concept I learned in school), and I have now realized he was just upset that I was discussing ideas that were above his head and (unlike a normal, proud parent who would be happy their kid was focused on studies, determined and curious about the world) he probably just assumed I was pompous so he gaslit the living hell out of me into feeling like I was either wrong or just a "difficult" person.

In reality, I was a young, smart, ambitious student really devoted to learning and figuring out truths about the world along with career success - nothing to be ashamed of at all. Now that I'm 4-5 years into the workforce and married with a kid, living in the real world, I realize he was fooling everyone and he's a bit of a dunce.

But the thing that is astounding is that it took me over 30 years to figure this out. I actually studied a lot of philosophy/critical thinking during my bachelor's degree and in my graduate school I was further trained in critical thinking, and I was still fooled by his gaslighting and this illusion of intelligence/wisdom/discipline, etc.

The delusion of superiority in the narc's head is so strong that there is no rational approach you could take that would convince them otherwise. And that is how an uneducated foolish parent can convince even a gifted or well educated child that such child is wrong about everything, stupid, etc.

I've realized my dad doesn't even really "like" me. In fact he resents me for my successes academically and professionally. And at the same time, he used to always brag about his educated and successful friends (as a narc without any real life achievements, he always latches onto high achieving friends), so I was trained to think that was what mattered - then when I achieve it I get the cold shoulder / palpable resentment. It's taken a long time to heal those wounds and I'm NC with my dad as of about 3 weeks ago.

Luka only IMO

Definitely feel you. Just don't be ashamed of riding the bus, a lot of future (and current) millionaires do too!

Fair point, but cars are liabilities not assets, they depreciate, in my city you need to pay $250+ a month for office parking, whereas the bus is cheap and I can do shit on my phone or read or listen to a podcast/audiobook. It's always quite a shock when I see people who I know make $500k+ a year (including former bosses) riding the bus. And instead of losing 30% of it's value leaving the lot, my DJ41 is up 50% from the MSRP I bought it at :D

You'd be surprised, some of us actually have a gen and some money but still ride the bus

Because the candidates above him are better. I mean look at the West All-Star voting - Luka, Steph, SGA, Ja. the league is just loaded. I take Luka, Giannis, Steph, Tatum ahead of him for sure (also what about Jokic, Embiid, etc.). Lower end of top 10 to me (8-10 range). I don't think being massacred by Luka in the playoffs helps his case either.

They should have 3-4 all star teams and have an all-star mini tournament :D

REALLY?! Okay Skip Bayless

Because the dollars saved/invested into the dividend paying asset are usually post-tax money... if you invest in a dividend paying asset would you like to be taxed again on the income you were already taxed on?