In the news recently:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, the one-time "Sheriff" of Wall Street who campaigned on a promise to clean up state politics, was embroiled in a sex scandal on Monday that threatened to force his resignation.
A New York Times report linked him to a $1,000-an-hour prostitute, saying he was caught on a federal wiretap at least six times on February 12 and 13 arranging to meet with her at a Washington hotel last month.
While we do not address motivational profile and desires directly in Upping the Downside: 64 Strategies for Creating Professional Resilience By Design, we make it clear that self-knowledge is key.
Many people today are condemning Spitzer for everything from being the most evil person on earth, to psychologists lamenting that he was taken over by his "limbic" system and was unable to use his thinking brain.
My explanation?
Spitzer has a normal personality. In a book of the same name, Dr. Steven Reiss attempts to show how each of us has a motivational profile, and rather than being a blank slate to be written upon by society, we are pre-programmed from conception with specific motivational desires.
First off, I'm not taking Eliot's side here, he has to face whatever crime he committed, but for those who pretend that he has lost his mind, or is evil, I will ask them to look more deeply for this explanation in the mirror rather than Spitzer.
Most likely, Spitzer has this motivational architecture:
- Low Acceptance - High Self Confidence, not need approval of others
- Low Order - Needs novelty, especially under pressure (something I've discovered)
- Low Tranquility - Doesn't worry, throws caution to the wind
- High Power - Needs to influence, control, construct and dominate situations
- High Romance - Fantasizes about sex often and has sexual fantasies
- High Status - Why he chose the Emperor's club and not Tokyo Massage...
- High Physical Exercise - Likes to feel ones muscles move
Now, society is bent on condemning anyone who doesn't meet society's now politically correct rules, but essentially, his personality can be explained simply as normal...and what's more, if he doesn't do what he did in some way, he's not being himself.
Our politically correct psychologists and unaware mental health community can't understand how a person could put everything at risk to be who they are.
Spitzer, which has this personality--and along with him, many other high-performing individuals in sports, politics, business and everyday life--have these personality traits.
Not everyone expresses them in the same way, but many, many more than you think do.
Why?
Because that is who they are. Now, society may condemn these people for their actions--all the while they applaud their success...JFK was one of these personalities most likely as well...and yet the world is enamored with him.
I guess the problem is that Eliot got caught and that is the problem isn't it...?
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