"I understand that you're a certain type of person and I know how to work every type of person." — Kanika Batra
Kanika Batra, on the episode
This is a conversation between Chris Williamson and Kanika Batra, a self-described factor one psychopath diagnosed with both antisocial personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder. The pop framing of a psychopath is a chaotic, violent criminal. The actual operating system Batra describes is almost the opposite: cold, strategic, long-horizon, and highly attuned to how other people function emotionally. She has spent years studying normal human behavior precisely because it does not come naturally to her, and that study became a toolkit she uses deliberately. This protocol pulls the sharpest operational insights from the conversation: how she detects genuine emotion versus performance, how she maintains control in relationships and conflicts, and how she recommends ordinary people protect themselves from the same moves she uses.
Tactic 01
Kanika Batra, Modern Wisdom
Save His Contact Name As Something Unflattering
The play
Save new contacts under a neutral nickname, turn off notifications, and avoid constant texting.
Kanika Batra says
I tell women not to save a guy's real name but use a mildly insulting nickname instead, like hepatitis B. Turn off notifications on Instagram and any other platforms so you do not know when he was online and he does not know when you were. Don't text all the time because that creates more intimacy than is actually real at the moment. You're priming your body to be neutral instead of emotionally connecting onto someone you don't really know very well.
Try this
Save a new romantic contact under a neutral or mildly unflattering nickname and turn off their activity status and notifications.
