 Are narcissists intelligent? Many people who have dealt with a narcissist have been fooled into believing that they are intelligent. They have been fooled into believing that narcissists possess the qualities of an intelligent person. But when you look closely at the narcissist, you will find that their intelligence is not real or genuine. They are actually very stupid and their behaviors display a great lack of intelligence and common sense. Intelligence can be defined as the capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking and problem solving. Those are all qualities which the narcissist doesn't possess or has great difficulty with. They are not intelligent. They are just good at manipulation. They are good at tricking or deceiving you. They are living a lie. They created their own fake world to protect themselves from reality and this is something that they have been doing for a very long time. They have had so much practice at lying to themselves that they are now good at lying to other people. They are good at tricking you into believing certain things or into doing things that they want. They know how to display the false appearance or impression that they want you to see. They are good at this because they have had so much practice of displaying their own false appearance or impression to themselves. This is something that they always do. They lie to themselves. It has given them plenty of practice where they have now developed the skills to display a false appearance or impression to other people. Manipulated them, tricking or deceiving them. It is a tendency or habit that has become characteristic or instinctive. They are so familiar with these behaviours that they can do them easily without needing to think much about it. They are good at playing games but they are very superficial. They are lacking a depth of character. They are lacking the mental and moral qualities. Although they will act as though they are interested in durating to charity or supporting the community. Their behaviour suggests that they are more interested in money or material possessions. What they do is very different to what they say. It may seem as though they are trying to establish something but they always fail. An intelligent person knows how to be productive. They know how to develop something with a foundation and structure required to prevent it from collapsing on top of them. But the narcissist will try to develop something without building the correct foundation and structure which results in anything that they try to establish then collapsing on top of them. They build something which then falls on top of them. That is not something that an intelligent person would do. But it is how the narcissist functions. They know how to attract your interest and lure you into their world. But they act on impulse. They do things suddenly without any planning or considering the effects that they may have. But they lack of knowledge and information. They lack the intelligence required to sustain anything or to provide it with any strength or support. What sustains it? What keeps it going is the manipulation. The deception, dishonesty and lies. They display a false appearance or impression. They induce false ideas or beliefs within you. And that is what sustains it. But those are also the same things that eventually produce failure. Those are also the same things that result in everything that they are trying to establish collapsing on top of them. They don't have the intelligence or the range of skills or abilities to maintain it which results in things deteriorating, becoming progressively worse over time. Because they didn't have the right skills or abilities to keep it at the same level or rate they are not disciplined in the areas that produce success. They don't have the ability to understand or share the feelings of other people. They lack the emotional maturity. They have difficulty understanding and managing their emotions. They seek to blame someone else for their problems or behaviour rather than seeking to fix the problem or behaviour. Yet they still feel deserving of privileges or special treatment. Narcissists gravitate towards people and things that are not their proper match. People and things that are greatly superior to them. They believe that they can improvise without any preparation through the use of manipulation, deception, dishonesty and lies. They trick people into trusting them or into having the authority over doing certain things which then results in everything that they are trying to establish collapsing on top of them. The narcissists get themselves involved in things that they do not have the specified qualities or requirements for which then results in damage or disaster. Regardless of the consequences, they cannot accept the fact that the reason why it turned out this way is because they didn't have the specified qualities or requirements. They can't see it in that way because they believe that the character they displayed to you did have the required qualities of high standard. They believe that the character was of benefit or advantage to someone or something. The problem is, the character is nothing more than a fabrication. It has no solid foundation or structure. It is based on a lie. It is based on instability and insecurity which means that it was predestined to fall apart. Yet they believe that the character could be of use to someone or something because they were lying to themselves which then led them to take on things that they believe they have the specified qualities or requirements for. But who they really are underneath that character is someone who doesn't have the discipline the understanding or the emotional maturity. They are not fully developed so anything that they get involved in is predestined to fall apart. Yet they do not ever look at themselves and realise that it is due to a fault or mistake that they have made. They are perplexed and confused when something does fail because they don't self-reflect or look within and they have been lying to themselves the entire time. If the narcissist was to self-reflect or look within constantly or without interruption and held themselves accountable for their faults and mistakes without trying to shift the blame onto someone else that would be the beginning stages of their recovery from narcissism but they don't recover because they continue to blame other people. They choose to not self-reflect or look within. It's too painful for them to do that after they have spent so much time lying to themselves denying reality, denying the truth they do all of that because they don't want to accept the truth about themselves they depend on their manipulation and lies they depend on the false appearance or impression which might make them seem as though they are intelligent since most of their knowledge is superficial you believe in their lies and start to think that they're intelligent but they're just good actors they are just playing the role of what you might want them to be they study characters that they believe might assist them with their underlying intentions or motives to display their false appearance or impression in the way that they wanted to be displayed to you but they are not intelligent their behaviours display a great lack of intelligence and common sense which is why wherever they go whatever they try to do it always ends up falling apart yet they have to depend on those behaviours because they are insufficient for a purpose thank you for watching I hope this video resonated with you please like, comment, share and subscribe click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos if you would like to donate my PayPal links in the video description coaching inquiries you can email me at nagsforvacoachin.com thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon