Primary Psychopathy – The Successful Entrepreneur’s Most Characterizing Personality Trait

You have surely seen my articles and posts about the Entrepreneurial Mindset. Yes, there are measurable personality traits that make it more likely for certain people to be successful entrepreneurs. That research resulted in me being named as a co-author in a presentation about how to apply this knowledge to employees, at the prestigious International Congress of Psychology (ICP), 2021, in Prague, Czech Republic (click here).

For employees, personal well-being as an employee almost never comes with a high degree of secondary psychopathy. And NOT with a high degree of primary psychopathy.

I am fully convinced that successful entrepreneurs need a high degree of primary psychopathy in order to be able to cope with various situations that entrepreneurs encounter on a daily basis. And I am fully convinced that successful entrepreneurs need a low to medium degree of secondary psychopathy in order to be able to successfully rake in new business from clients and to work together with successful employees.

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