Pathologically Helpful

Published by

Lem Usita

on

July 7, 2010

I am reading Malcolm Gladwell‘s The Tipping Point. I read that line when Malcolm was talking about Mark Alpert. He described him on pg. 66. The line after says – He can’t help himself. “A Maven is someone who solves his own problems – his own emotional needs – by solving other people’s problems.”

What an interesting identity to take on – the pathologically helpful.

pathological [ˌpæθəˈlɒdʒɪk^əl] less commonly, pathologic adj

3. (Psychiatry) Informal compulsively motivated a pathological liar

pathologically adv

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