1. A person craves attention and admiration all the time.
Attention and admiration-seeking behaviors are probably the most reliable indicator that a person is highly narcissistic. The underlying cause of these behaviors is a narcissistic person’s lack of any internal sense of self-worth, defined value system, authentic worldview, and honest connections with other people.
This is the reason a narcissist constantly seeks external validation and confirmation of their own value, by placing excessive focus on grandiose or vulnerable self-presentation as compensation for their hidden sense of their own unworthiness.
2. A person is entitled and arrogant.
One of the hallmarks of narcissistic behavior is an unearned sense of self-importance, which is a catalyst for their entitled and arrogant behaviors. A narcissistic person is often convinced that they are deserving of everything they want in any given moment, which drives their arrogant behavior that is an expression of the false self they carefully create and maintain as a defense mechanism against the realities of who and what they really are. This makes narcissists constantly require other people to provide them with special treatment and cater to their whims.
3. A person lacks the capacity for true empathy.
This kind of person may be able to perfectly emulate empathy, or even possess cognitive empathy – the ability to intellectually observe emotional patterns in other people, but they are sorely lacking in the ability to become immersed in other people’s feelings and gain a true sense of what those people may be going through. Even these attempts at emulating empathy are, by definition, self-serving and are completely devoid of any desire to help anyone but themselves.
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