Often I'm confused at the concept of building or teaching or learning how to be empathetic. I think empathy is something that is native to individuals you can learn how to pretend to be empathetic but to actually feel another person's pain as your own? That's an assumption.
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I think if you have the capacity to feel it, you can learn the skills for recognising it so that there is something to feel. The learning part is learning how to mentally project yourself into their position so as to imagine how it feels to them.
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Replying to @timtfj
That would simply be projecting sympathy otherwise empathy is actually feeling the pain not a projection and recognition that is sympathy

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Replying to @mholzschlag
I think it's also putting yourself into a position where if you're able to experience empathy, you have a chance to—I don't think the empathy itself can be learnt, but I think openness to it probably can.
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Possibly true I don't have any evidence one way or the other and I don't think anybody does but they act as if they do.
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Replying to @mholzschlag @timtfj
It's like IQ the potential exists if the number is typically 140 or higher. It does not mean you are a genius or will ever be one. You can have a genetic marker for a disease that doesn't mean you'll have the disease.