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Dr. K

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

So like part of, you know, I'm kind of, I don't know if this makes sense.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

Everyone thinks like I'm a good guy.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

I'm really not.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

And I tried to tell your team I'm just like an ordinary person.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

And like they were not having it.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

But I have a lot of negative tendencies within me that I very intentionally try to like move away from.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

So what is sociopathy?

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

Sociopathy is, so a sociopath is someone who is so high on the sociopathy scale that it like really impairs their function.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

But one feature of sociopathy is a lack of empathy.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

So when you have a sociopath, they can hurt people and they feel nothing.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

The reason that psychiatrists have to be sociopathic is I have to be able to sit with someone who's suicidal and hopeless and depressed and not absorb that.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

I have to put up a wall of empathy.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

And I can turn it on and off like a valve.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

So I've trained myself to like be more empathic.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

Having kids was a big part of that.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

So it's not that I'm evil.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

But sociopathy is really common, like a surgeon has to cut into another human being and not feel bad about it.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

Right.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

Which sounds kind of weird, but like makes sense.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

So there are absolutely these kinds of traits where if you kind of think about like.