Дмитрий Коренев

The question of what percentage of our world is made up of introverts and what percentage of extraverts always arouses interest. Understanding this ratio helps us appreciate the sheer variety of human personalities.

Everybody wants love, closeness, partnership. Yet most of us manage to fall in love with the wrong person — and more than once at that. Some follow this script: they search, they meet someone, they fight their way through thorns to the stars, at last he (or she) gives in, happiness and the happy ending seem to have arrived, and... something is missing. Others fall in love at first sight, spend the best part of a decade in a nerve-shredding marriage, then divorce and breathe freely again, and... they want love, closeness, partnership.

Who could tell you more about the five-factor model of personality, or the Big Five, than the man who used it to win Donald Trump the presidential election and to take Britain out of the European Union. Meet the talk given by Alexander Nix, chief executive of the now-vanished firm Cambridge Analytica.

Psychopaths. How do you spot one? What goes on inside them? And, most interesting of all, how do you deal with them so as to get what I want and get away with it? That is what this article is about.