Book post 2

            In this weeks reading of the Wisdom of Psychopaths by Kevin Dutton, Dutton continued to unravel the making of a psychopath. He continued to discuss the emotions that fill regular people and how psychopaths simply don’t feel them. He discusses how being psychopathic is an emotionless void and psychopaths can even see emotions more as numbers and words than feelings. Dutton also began to discuss how psychopathic traits are passed down through generations. Dutton puts psychopaths on a spectrum and states the varying degrees on this spectrum, with anyone from mass-murdering rapists to politicians on the spectrum. A lot of the book so far has been analysis of psychopaths and I am beginning to become bored of it. It is very repetitive, talking about the same ideas for the first eighty pages. It seems as if most of the ideas he has discussed so far could have been summed up into ten pages. Dutton hasn’t even really made the connection between the business world and being a psychopath and I am already eighty pages in.

Dutton isn’t saying that people should be psychopaths but he feels that the everyday person in the business world might be able to learn a thing or two from them. Dutton has yet to dive into how success in business is related to psychopaths, but based on his observations so far; it will be interesting to see how he connects them. When (if) Dutton connects the business world and being psychopathic, I think it will surround the emotions of the people. I think what Dutton has keyed in on so far is that the emotionless void that psychopaths have is what puts them above the average person.