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A review by addyrose22
The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success by Kevin Dutton

2.0

I personally did not enjoy this book. Putting it politely I felt that it said a lot without saying a lot. So much of it was “reaching”, such as the description of the experiments about psychopathy and what they show and taking all of the results as complete fact rather than an analysis of possible biases or misinterpretation of the data etc etc.

Finally, much of the book had what felt like white privileged male dick swinging with random descriptions of the expensive food and drinks the author had at expensive restaurants with top scientists and researchers and businessmen that added absolutely nothing to the book or to the analysis of psychopathy. There were also hints of misogyny coming through now and again.