My name is Mark Vesente. I'm a director, producer, writer, and troublemaker. I'm most known as the director of the film What the Bleep Do We Know, and as one of the next-team whistleblowers featured in the HBO series, Aval. Let's just say, I know a thing or two about cults. I don't consider myself a cult expert, but I'm definitely an expert in being screwed over, waking up, and

knowing how to spot them.

And let me tell you, they're everywhere.

My mission is to help people see patterns of abuse across multiple contexts.

From personal to family, to group, to societal.

It's all the same pattern at every scale.

As you'll hear, I have a pretty salty approach to most things.

So there might be some blasphemy.

One or two sacred cows might get knocked over, and there'll likely be some foul language.

You never quite know what you're going to get, because it really does depend on what the

fuck is on my mind.

Well, hello there. Welcome back to WTF is on my mind. Well, hello there.

Welcome back to WTF is on my mind.

As per usual, it's time to break down all the crazy psychological phenomena that influence how we think, act, and get manipulated.

Today, I want to talk about some different types of narcissism.

It's not just your everyday mirror-loving, selfie-posting, you know, grandiose narcissists.

There's a lot more.

I want to go much deeper.

I want to dive into sort of three different faces or aspects of narcissism.

So the first one is grandiose or overt narcissism. This is the loud,

arrogant, power-hungry type of person. The second thing is covert, vulnerable narcissism.

It's the insecure, passive-aggressive, like woe is me, narcissist. And then finally and most importantly for the discussion today is the communal narcissist.

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