Doubt if any of this is useful, but personally > How did you develop your listening skill? I've somehow developed the skill to detect that the other person is

Doubt if any of this is useful, but personally > How did you develop your listening skill? I've somehow developed the skill to detect that the other person isn't asking for a solution and most of the time I just blank out and think about other stuff (lol) and give vague agreeable comments ... while not empathetic, people keep coming back to talk about their problems for some reason, so I guess it works out? > How to be more empathetic? No idea. > What common failure modes do you hit in your relationships as a low empathy person? Keep forgetting things that should be "obviously" important - anniversaries / courtesies etc > How do you avoid them? I don't! If needed I apologize, explain the situation from my viewpoint to show that it's not deliberate and usually others grow used to it :)