Par for the course. I’m no longer surprised by this because now I know that people are content to simply read about a thing instead of reading that thing itself.
It think it’s nuts, but it doesn’t surprise me any more.
Your point was not about his stuff but about his person. I read up on them and see it is a terrible, uncompassionate and frankly hateful person. That is not for me.
I listened to a couple of his seminars on narcissism and thought, "Hey, this guy knows what he's talking about!" But the more I listened to him, especially his more recent stuff, the more I realized he doesn't actually know what he's talking about.
I guess he just had a handle on narcissism from his own personal experience as one.