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  • Authors@GoogleNY is pleased to welcome Jon Ronson, author of "The Psychopath Test" as well as "Them" and "The Men Who Stare at Goats."
    He will discuss his latest collection of essays entitled "LOST AT SEA". These pieces center on the idea of everyday people who find that ordinariness is not quite enough and look to the absurd to find whatever it is they think they're missing -- aliens, robots, game shows, hardcore Christian rap music, psychics...anything slightly out of the realm of the normal that might make a regular guy feel a little more alive.
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  • @zootsoot2006
    @zootsoot2006 11 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Which internet user ever slagged off Jon Ronson, he's the poster boy for neurotic geeks who can still be cool and likeable.

  • @juliettejones6091
    @juliettejones6091 9 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I love Jon Ronson, can't wait to get his new book.

  • @thomasthomasson2319
    @thomasthomasson2319 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I like that Jon suggests to a room of people at Google that tax evasion is due to psychopathy

  • @shrimpfarmersunion
    @shrimpfarmersunion 11 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    He was supposed to promote his latest book "Lost at Sea" but I guessed he lost track of himself. This guy is quite the character...

    • @quiltboy
      @quiltboy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I think this talk has been mislabelled.

  • @TheTricksterFigure
    @TheTricksterFigure ปีที่แล้ว

    While I was working for one big company my boss was 100% a psychopath.

  • @siracastori01
    @siracastori01 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The hatred of Freud of the guy who hates Freud is so so Freudian.

    • @7r3v0r
      @7r3v0r 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Freud must be rolling in his grave. Laughing.

  • @XieYali
    @XieYali 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    An acquaintance of mine told me he was diagnosed as a sociopath as a child and also while serving in the army in Iraq. They trained him as a sniper and he told me he had absolutely no moral qualms about his job and how insidious other sociopaths were especially outside in civilian society.

    • @rebekah7635
      @rebekah7635 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not sure who you are or where you met this guy, but they ALL say they were snipers, esp if they're trying to impress a girl in a bar. If everyone who said they were a sniper was a sniper, the armed forces would be 99% snipers and no logistics employees, cooks or mechanics. Probably still a sociopath but not likely to have been a sniper.

  • @delightfullydotty7130
    @delightfullydotty7130 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My infj hero and the male version of me. Adore and worship thee.

  • @stitcha123
    @stitcha123 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love Jon Ronson.

  • @STOG01
    @STOG01 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I can totally see this guy writing the men who stare at goats. PS I enjoyed the movie a lot :)

  • @JerjerB
    @JerjerB 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    woah...good book...good man

  • @QuestionMySanityUK
    @QuestionMySanityUK 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This has made me fall in love with him so much more :D

  • @hannahmclaren9672
    @hannahmclaren9672 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this so much its very fascinating

  • @leonblythe5109
    @leonblythe5109 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like that this ended on a high

  • @trishtraynor
    @trishtraynor 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm an Aspie. I totally get this guy.💖

  • @PartVIII
    @PartVIII 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    with regards to the last question,
    personally, i believe Robert Hare's statistic that roughly 1% of the population are psychopaths. just as with any other personality disorder, there are varying degrees of intensity within a wide range of observable traits.
    plus, it's almost counter-intuitive for the untrained psychologist to diagnose an "unethically outgoing" person as a psychopath. it's much easier to self-diagnose yourself as comparatively timid.

  • @SophieBee1
    @SophieBee1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Interesting

  • @zoyazosya
    @zoyazosya 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If 1% is high than I should consider myself "lucky" to have met more than one psychopath during my short life?

  • @paul74432
    @paul74432 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I hope Jon Ronson isn't suggesting that ADHD is an 'invented' condition, because he seems to be doing exactly that. I have ADHD, I've suffered the symptoms all my life (it's a condition one's born with) but wasn't finally diagnosed until I was 55.
    It is a PHYSICAL MALFORMATION OF THE NEURONS IN THE BRAIN, it is NOT something somebody made up on the spur of the moment at some meeting where a load of psychiatrists were brain-storming ideas.

  • @ShabbaRanksMF
    @ShabbaRanksMF 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Jon is a great northern man. As was The man with the papier-mâché head..... Frank Sidebottom.

    • @mattsawyer343
      @mattsawyer343 ปีที่แล้ว

      He’s actually from Cardiff! But I know where you’re coming from.

  • @PartVIII
    @PartVIII 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    look at how Jon picks at the label during the Q & A.. i'm no psychologist, but that looks like a stereotypical case of generalized anxiety disorder

    • @michaelhall5429
      @michaelhall5429 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      He has a couple of anxiety disorders.

  • @Tommybgoode
    @Tommybgoode 10 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    he doesnt discuss Lost at Sea, this is all about the Psychopath test... Why so misleading?

    • @CrayCrowman
      @CrayCrowman 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Good question Tommy.

    • @quiltboy
      @quiltboy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's been mislabelled by Google.

  • @ciaracustard
    @ciaracustard 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sorry, I'm quite young and stuff like that sometimes goes over my head.

  • @mouthebartender2072
    @mouthebartender2072 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Klum n Rs

  • @HeatIIEXTEND
    @HeatIIEXTEND 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    that's the joke -__