- Display selfishness to hide vulnerability - By dissociating emotions with women and focusing on sex and getting numbers, they become more confident - Narcissism pairs with needy partners to feed their ego, and the needy person is unable to love themselves so they put up with it - Works on women with no self-confidence and expect mistreatment - By basing their self-worth through external objectives, they are still needy - Becomes attacked from rejection - Non-needy people don't date needy people - Caring about your self-esteem isn't bad, it's when it's always what you think of - ![[Transcend#^p6ar00]] - Unfortunately, always being grand isn't realistic or sustainable. - ![[Transcend#^ebusbr]] - This can then tie into why strong-voiced [[Influencers]] can be more appealing to people ## Origins ![[Transcend#^5ielpl]] - people are narcissistic because they lacked affection, they don't know it's importance