Doctor, lawyer, conman, thief.
They’re an accountant, a chef, or an executive.
Nah. Maybe they know how to use a copier,
file a grant or sell a car,
but they’re a person pretending to be a person
pretending to do a job.
Look again…See through the facade.

We meet this new gorgeous woman, or cool kind of bloke, and think, this guy is amazing! and she’s incredible! And it really seems they are. The most frequent thing people think when confronted and sucked in by a con artist is: this guy (gal) has done more in one lifetime than most people could do in twenty lifetimes!!

He’s a doctor or a lawyer. She’s a baker, in real estate, or teaches math… Well kind of. Here’s the thing, if they’re a pathological user or a person of pathological sociopathy their real full-time job is something else.

Then, they’re a person pretending to be a person pretending to do that job they get a paycheck from.

But – since you didn’t know about sociopathic liars, you believe them. And paint a very rosy story to go with their words that fill in the details of how amazing they are.

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