Avoid Predatory Personalities
How to spot them — and what to do when you do
This essay on predatory personalities is adapted from my forthcoming book Cosmic Habit Force (Jan 2022). I am providing it free and in full because of the urgency of its message. If you find it useful, please consider preordering the book. — MH
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Success author Napoleon Hill once cautioned: “Avoid persons and circumstances which make you feel inferior.” This simple remark contains greater dimensions than may at first appear.
“Avoid persons and circumstances which make you feel inferior.”
One of the toughest lessons I have had to learn in life, and that I am still learning as I write these words, is the prevalence of people who are emotionally predatory. Such people use emotional powerplays — almost always with plausible deniability — to keep you unsteady, needful, or confused. Emotional powerplays are vampiric. Such moves are the adjunct reality for which the mythical vampire is the metaphor. They must be watched for and, when discovered, separated from.
What I am writing took on a greater sense of urgency to me recently. I realized that the predatory personality — and I write this based on no data other than personal observation — probably…
