> How much is too much and how little is being plainly emotionally irresponsible? Don't have a definitive answer to this one, but perhaps callously I would say

> How much is too much and how little is being plainly emotionally irresponsible? Don't have a definitive answer to this one, but perhaps callously I would say care more about the feelings of people who already reciprocates your attention. You are under no obligation to care about the feelings of people who don't care about yours. So when you are just starting out trying to make friends with someone, don't worry about their feelings at all, but you should feel more responsibility after you have established a trust relationship. > How would you manage trying too much? Just experience, even if you mess up a few times and come across as trying too hard it's ok. Really not the end of the world, people perceive that embarrassment to be more important than it is. Most people should like your effort, and for those that don't you can adjust. Sometimes those people even end up missing your effort when you stop trying. > How about people that engage in social activities everyday and the social anxiety is always there? It's possible that person did it too late? I know the mind is less malleable as we get into our 20s, training to operate fluently in society is typically done in middle school. I'm not a neuroscientist so I can't say with any authority, but the effort->effortless might not apply to people who start the process later in life. > Even if you had such a device, would you be able to interpret what you read from someone else's mind? I spend enough time thinking about my own feelings and understanding them that I think I would recognize the same in other people. I don't think other people have uniquely complex emotions and perspectives that I never experienced, but if I got a device I would probably be even more of an expert at recognizing other people's emotions. Sort of like how babies these days grow up with ipads and are more digital natives, if this device actually exists the next generation would be emotion-reading natives. Hope my reply was useful.