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Learning empathy very difficult

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Tool-Bearing Hominid
Tool-Bearing Hominid
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If the title sounds negative to you, I don't intend it that way. But I found that empathy is the most difficult thing to learn.

There is already an article: Can You Develop More Empathy? Science Suggests "Yes"
  • Why is it this way? If something is a way, there must be a reason for it.
  • What other ways could it be? What are possible alternatives?
  • How does this interact with the other things I know and believe?
  • What is this person feeling right now? What emotions are she experiencing?
  • What do those emotions feel like if I experience them myself?
  • Why does this person act the way he or she does? What's the root cause?
  • Is this person trusting of me? What would I feel like if I was her and I violated that trust?
  • Is this person paranoid? What would I feel like if I was as paranoid as him, and what would I be afraid that I am going to do?
I can guess the answer, but will my answer correct? Last year to build more reference empathy, I lived with roommates from different backgrounds: a single mom, a medical student, a business owner, a black cook, and most recently a pregnant woman. But is "true empathy" (knowing their motivations) possible at all?

I assume that empathy is necessary to get the unicorns (9-10 range). The great thing about Girls Chase is that it is a comprehensive system, coupled with real-world feedback, I can learn the behaviors, strategies, and what fundamentals to improve. I think with systematic improvement I can become good with girls in a couple years. Ideally I can also improve my empathy, so in a couple years when I'm refined and my empathy was also good, I can become legendary.

But I also feel like empathy is innate. I was born with no empathy and found the necessity to systematically learn it.
 
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