Psychology

Why the Best Investors, Like Tibetan Monks, are Psychopaths

“Gordon Gekko” by Gaynoir_ is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

I may be a psychopath. This scary thought is not the result of discovering a bunch of unidentified body parts in the freezer, nor is it a consequence of my having flunked a Cosmo personality test in the supermarket checkout line.

Perhaps the possibility of my being a psychopath does not surprise you at all, given the…