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Empathy As A Tool
One of the most recent book I’ve read was “Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion” by Paul Bloom and, besides being beautifully written piece in itself, it also made me reconsider the way I see empathy: clearly, it is not merely a capacity but a tool, that one should use consciously and selectively.Why you need to be carefulOkay so here is the deal. We all experience something empathy-like from time to time: we “feel what other feel”, pick up the emotions of other person (often wit...

Empathy As A Tool
One of the most recent book I’ve read was “Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion” by Paul Bloom and, besides being beautifully written piece in itself, it also made me reconsider the way I see empathy: clearly, it is not merely a capacity but a tool, that one should use consciously and selectively.Why you need to be carefulOkay so here is the deal. We all experience something empathy-like from time to time: we “feel what other feel”, pick up the emotions of other person (often wit...