Why Joel Stein Is Not a Narcissist

I sing the Joel electric — and yet I am not technically a narcissist. This explains why I'm not famous

Illustration by John Ueland for TIME

One thing I've learned about me after a lot of Googling myself is that most of my sentences contain the words I, me and myself . So when I found out that Dr. Drew Pinsky had given a test to 200 celebrities to find out if they're more narcissistic than everyone else, I wanted to take the test too. And I wanted to print the results in a magazine.

In the least surprising poll not conducted by USA Today , Pinsky proved that celebrities are indeed narcissistic, in his new book The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism Is Seducing America . While the average...

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