Describe your current plans & future ambitions.
...Very few people will both answer 'Conquer large parts of Europe' & actually Caesar-Up. ;)
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It should be noted I'm actually really hesitant to answer this, hence the humor, because one will come across people with grandiose plans, who are deadly serious, AND who are exhibiting none of the signs of pathological grandiosity. From idealistic kids following charismatic leaders (whether a musician intent on being the next Beatles, with the record label to back them; to a terrorist who wants to bring down the satan of the west; to a missionary or beauty pagent contestant who believes the whole world can come to blah blah blah)... And probably 100 other examples...To other pathologies like euphoria.
I periodically mention that "I love cocky bastards, I hate arrogant pricks." Look at the dictionary, those two words are roughly defined the same. The difference is in personal context. I view cocky / cocksure as the kind of glittery belief in ones self, while I view arrogant as the disbelief in others (raising themselves up by putting others down). It's just a personal definition.
So much of psych is in context. What would be grandiose in one person is the Tuesday schedule in the President/PrimeMinister/Etc.'s calendar, and nothing more complicated than simple ambition in one of their staffers, or stratification in one of their kids (my mom/dad is So&So, and I'm going to be So&So, too. Whether it's Dictator For Life, or a cop/doctor/soldier/SAHP/tinker/tailor/spy it's perfectly natural for many kids to assume the family business when young, then set lofty -yet reasonable & attainable- goals for themselves as they age). There can STILL be grandiosity, though, even when goals -like being the leader of a country- are perfectly attainable. There's a news reel that plays across one of my games that reads "Dictator demands Solar Eclipse on birthday!" which is a good example. But being beloved by all? Just as good an example. No one will be loved by everyone.
And then we jump into linguistic and cultural differences. Arabic? Is HUGELY FLORID. Really, it translates like reading Shakespeare whilst drunk. It's a beeeeeautiful language, but it really, really, reeeeeeally cannot be read straight, using western standards. Japanese is almost the exact opposite. Snicker. If you think the British are self effacing & prone to understatement? :roflmao: Wit so dry a martini is envious. Does grandiosity exist in both cultures? Absolutely. But it's going to present differently.
And a whole lot of other stuff.
Mostly, I just think it's incredibly difficult to quantify common sense, & distill experience, into checklists.
