Deception of success

Author name: Paola Versari

Does a person really achieve success by celebrating themselves while ignoring others? In this book, author Paula Versari puts the concept of contemporary success to the test. She discusses the culture of narcissism in the age of social media and the reinforcement of the illusion of success through self-centeredness and the neglect of others, whose importance has become limited to being numbers among the "likes" and "shares." Drawing from her experience as a psychologist, she analyzes the difference between self-actualization and the narcissistic culture that limits success to the "fame, power, and money" triangle, and how the latter represents self-deception.