Sam is who he is, but I felt like this sentence dramatically undervalues the importance of empathy (presumably in the service of decisiveness, or Getting Things

Sam is who he is, but I felt like this sentence dramatically undervalues the importance of empathy (presumably in the service of decisiveness, or Getting Things Done): "If you find yourself always agreeing with whomever you last spoke with, that’s bad." It's like what (art critic) Peter Schjeldahl said about (world's most prestigious gallerist) Larry Gagosian: “He's like a shark or a cat or some other perfectly designed biological mechanism.”