Empathy

  • All to the payload

    Nothing goes to waste. Neither a minute nor an experience, good or bad. This is not pre-destination. It is how our brain stores and evolves. Millions of calculation, prediction, reflection and reinvention. Like technology which evolves, so do we. We made a mistake. We did it again. Then we learned. Both David Brooks and Jeremy…

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  • Poverty and empathy

    Studies show an inverse relationship between socio-economic background and emotional intelligence. http://geronimarion.posterous.com/emotional-intelligence-linked-to-socio-econom In short, those privileged kids don’t give a damn how you feel, at work, that is. Kids whose fathers fell from grace (Madoff, Skilling) committed suicide (former) or died a mysterious death (later). And we all knew what happened with Hearst and Getty‘s.…

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