SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Trump is driven by one thing and one thing only: the search for glory

[kpete]

By Scott Barry Kaufman on July 24, 2016


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......I believe we need to look deeper at the underlying motivation behind virtually everything Trump does, from his choice of teammates to his tweets to his private and public statements. In my estimation, Trump is driven by one thing and one thing only: the search for glory. Everything stems from this one simple fact, and everything falls into place in a predicable fashion once we fully understand the operation of this fundamentally human drive.

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“Hence the fear of defeat made further triumphs always necessary. Moreover, the feeling of grandeur, increasing with every triumph, rendered it increasingly intolerable that anybody, or even any nation, should not recognize his grandeur.”


“Since the person’s real interest in a pursuit does not matter, he mustbe the center of attention, must be the most attractive, the most intelligent, the most original– whether or not the situation calls for it; whether or not, with his given attributes, he can be the first. He mustcome out victorious in any argument, regardless of where the truth lies.”


“The checks on imagination are malfunctioning in the search for glory… The more his irrational imagination has taken over, the more likely he is to be positively horrified at anything that is real, definite, concrete, or final. He tends to abhor time, because it is something definite; money, because it is concrete; death, because of its finality. But he may also abhor having a definite wish or opinion, and hence avoid making a definite commitment or a decision.”


“He forgets; it does not count; it was accidental; it was on account of circumstances, or because others provoked him; he couldn’t help it, because it was “natural.” Like a fraudulent bookkeeper, he goes to any length to maintain the double account; but unlike him, he credits himself only with the favorable one and professes ignorance of the other.”



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Wow:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/donald-trump-s-real-ambition/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=flipboard

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

1. Glory iso hole.

[MFM008]

2. glory hole

you beat me to it. crap.

[trof]

3. It's still the same old story...

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[smirkymonkey]

4. K&R

[spiderpig]

5. Keep searching, Buster.

Glory will always be out of your reach. You are a mean-spirited, bile-spewing piece of garbage. And other than your mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging fanbase, WE'RE ALL LAUGHING AT YOU!

Ridiculous windbag.

[tblue37]

6. K&R. nt