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Empathic individuals tend act from a position of deep understanding. If given a menial task that has no deep connection to their reality, i.e. no purpose they c

• thescribe 11y ago
  >A deeply empathic person can calculate, and more generally think and intuit, better than an emotionally detached person as long as they can emotionally connect with the task being given to them. Do you have good numbers to back that up?
  • elevenfist 11y ago
    Edit: It's important to note though that this might be just another attempt by psychologists to paint technical folk as lacking empathy. Usually people who make such claims lack empathy themselves. What @ilostmykeys is saying is probably based on personal experience, which matches up with my own. Similarly I've found low empathetic people are much more likely to enjoy calculation-based tasks, not just pure mathematics but video games, and video games like "The Witness," min-maxing and competitive numbers games like starcraft, dota, league of legends, etc. A high-empathetic person can have great difficulty initially understanding why anyone would enjoy playing these games, it's difficult to explain, but when compared with real life video games/simulations feel like a void, there's very little to actually connect with, and in effect it feels like you are doing very little (even if you are making great efforts).