A short YouTube monologue (by Mark Hamilton) that offers a simple heuristic for spotting narcissistic people: observe how they speak about others. The speaker contrasts those who habitually put others down or compare to win with those who genuinely praise and lift others up, and concludes that the latter are secure while the former are compensating.
Here's how you know somebody is a narcissist. And this is a simple truth proven everywhere you look. It says anyone can weigh others down, but only the strong can lift others up. And what that means is. Well, you know when some people never really compliment anyone who always finds something negative to say, even about people they just met, or who's always comparing and always coming out on top? Well, compare that to someone who talks positively about people, especially behind their back. Someone who gives others credit. Someone who doesn't need to tear anyone down, but instead lifts others up. One of them is secure, the other is compensating. So if you want to know if someone's a narcissist, don't look at how much they talk about themselves, look at how they talk about everyone else.
