A narcissist can never truly be a part of any team. In every project, they either dominate and take credit or sabotage and complain. If it is a psychopathic narcissist, they will treat teammates like donkeys, piling their own work onto others while sitting back to collect the glory. If it is a grandiose, insecure, or reactive type, they will argue endlessly, always needing to be right, refusing feedback, and dragging the whole project down.
Teamwork demands humility, patience, listening, and compromise. A narcissist has none of these. They will steal ideas, rewrite history to make themselves the hero, and turn cooperative spaces into power struggles. Their behavior destroys the very project they are trying to control. That’s why so many narcissists cannot hold jobs, why they keep getting fired, why their careers implode, and why every group eventually rejects them. Because teamwork requires respect, and they are incapable of it. Where teamwork builds bridges, they burn them. Where teamwork celebrates shared success, they steal it. Eventually, everyone sees them for what they are.
Number Six: Peace
Peace is unbearable for the narcissist. They are merchants of chaos. As I always say, they thrive in drama. When everything is calm, they get restless. They poke, prod, and provoke. They cannot stand harmony because harmony starves them of attention. I remember my father on Sundays turning peace into interrogation. I remember my mother manufacturing crises, crying, and faking illnesses just to pull focus back onto herself.
If everyone is laughing, they will drop a cruel comment. If you are resting, they’ll manufacture an argument or something that will destroy your peace because they do not let peace last. Peace means no spotlight and no supply for them. So, they sabotage it. They destroy it. They create storms in clear skies because without chaos, they fade into the background. And for a narcissist, fading is worse than death.
Number Seven: Balance
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