One thing most of these high-maintenance, easy-to-upset, difficult-to-please people have in common is that they feel as if the world isn’t treating them well enough. In essence, they don’t feel important or special enough in the world, usually because their awful personality has gotten in the way of success. In Chapter 2, I talked about how our brains “mirror” other people and how we want to be mirrored back. People who complain and cause problems typically have a serious mirror neuron gap, and the more other people avoid or ignore them, the worse it gets. Every day, they try to impress or
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