Paranoia is not an evil that is revealed in the company and in contact with his colleagues.
If as early as elementary school or middle school, you had the impression that others were constantly looking at you, talking about you and trying to harm you, it is very likely that your gaze on your open-space colleagues was little or prou the same as the one you had on your classmates!
A low mass between a handful of people you are not part of?
It has to be you.
A meeting to which you are not invited?
This is obviously because it will be a question of you - and not for the good - during this meeting!
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“Even the paranoid have enemies. It's true, but paranoid schizophrenics have twice as much, ”
writes Hervé Le Tellier in
Guerres et plaies
.
"A slight paranoia can do no harm to protect yourself from your enemies,"
Jacques Attali explained in an interview with
Le Figaro
.
Statistically, paranoids are more likely to be one step ahead of the most naive, even if the paranoia is always disproportionate ... But by doing so, we
ipso facto
increase our
chances of staying away from the most toxic and bad shots from each other.
It's a laughable paradox: paranoia allows you to know everything and to have force of conviction.
But if things turn out to be wrong!
Is the paranoid colleague liked or hated by his comrades (open-space, this time!) Neither.
When his flaw is too disproportionate, the laughable - even endearing - aspect of this facet of his personality switches to the dark side: into the ridiculous and the pathetic.
Conversely, a touch of paranoia can be an asset to help others and oneself in order to guess what sauce one is potentially going to be eaten ...
For the sake of this column, please feel free to share your own experience of important people by writing to qperinel@lefigaro.fr.