The disparity between the accomplishments of the narcissist and his grandiose fantasies and inflated self image - the Grandiosity Gap - is staggering and, in the long run, unsustainable.

Not everyone believes or can participate, or want to for that matter, in yoga and Buddhist meditation.These fantasies protect them from feelings of inner emptiness and shame, so facts and opinions that contradict them are ignored or rationalized away.

Emptiness, existential loneliness (he shares no common psychic ground with other humans), sadness, drifting, emotional absence, emotional platitude, mechanisation/robotisation (lack of anima, excess persona in Jung's terms) and meaninglessness. During your time together, the narcissist may have damaged your relationships with friends and family or limited your social life. If they lash out, think of them as a 3-year-old who feels rejected because their parent sets a bedtime. Narcissists also believe that they're better than everyone else and expect recognition as such—even when they've done nothing to earn it. So besides meditation, the other technique is to get yourself fired and become an independent entrepreneur.The under-achieving narcissist dodges challenges, eludes tests, shirks competition, sidesteps expectations, ducks responsibilities, evades authority - because he is afraid to fail and because