Ojai Diver
Contributor
I think the transformation process is interesting. If there's any psychologists out there, perhaps they can comment.
I had a friend in high school who was already showing some nascent annoying tendencies but with whom I enjoyed a good friendship. Then around age 17 he went off to Boy Scout leader training in Philmont, New Mexico and came back as the full-fledged narcissist he is today. Before we’d go camping all the time, but when he came back nobody could pitch a tent, build a fire or do the simplest tasks without his overbearing authoritarian input. And this insufferable attitude soon spread to every activity and facet of his life. Nobody who knew him before now wants to be around him – and it all started with his personality type and a summer of Boy Scout training.
A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing with the wrong person.
I had a friend in high school who was already showing some nascent annoying tendencies but with whom I enjoyed a good friendship. Then around age 17 he went off to Boy Scout leader training in Philmont, New Mexico and came back as the full-fledged narcissist he is today. Before we’d go camping all the time, but when he came back nobody could pitch a tent, build a fire or do the simplest tasks without his overbearing authoritarian input. And this insufferable attitude soon spread to every activity and facet of his life. Nobody who knew him before now wants to be around him – and it all started with his personality type and a summer of Boy Scout training.
A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing with the wrong person.