I don’t think what I’m calling empathy, either in common parlance or in actual practice, decomposes neatly. For me, these terms comprise a model of intuition that obscures with too much artificial light.
In that case, I don’t agree that the thing you’re claiming has low costs. As Raemon says in another comment this type of intuition only comes easily to certain people. If you’re trying to lump together the many skills I just pointed to, some are easy for others and some harder.
If however, the thing you’re talking about is the skill of checking in to see if you understand another person, then I would refer to that as active listening.
Of course, you’re right. This is more a reminder to myself and others who experience empathy as inexpensive.
Though empathy is cheap, there is a small barrier, a trivial inconvenience, a non-zero cost to activating it. I too often neglect it out of sheer laziness or forgetfulness. It’s so cheap and makes things so much better that I’d prefer to remember and use it in all conversations, if possible.
I don’t think what I’m calling empathy, either in common parlance or in actual practice, decomposes neatly. For me, these terms comprise a model of intuition that obscures with too much artificial light.
In that case, I don’t agree that the thing you’re claiming has low costs. As Raemon says in another comment this type of intuition only comes easily to certain people. If you’re trying to lump together the many skills I just pointed to, some are easy for others and some harder.
If however, the thing you’re talking about is the skill of checking in to see if you understand another person, then I would refer to that as active listening.
Of course, you’re right. This is more a reminder to myself and others who experience empathy as inexpensive.
Though empathy is cheap, there is a small barrier, a trivial inconvenience, a non-zero cost to activating it. I too often neglect it out of sheer laziness or forgetfulness. It’s so cheap and makes things so much better that I’d prefer to remember and use it in all conversations, if possible.