Empathy can cloud our judgment and lead us to make poor choices.You don’t realize it, but your empathy comes with a personal bias.Here are 3 intriguing lessons I’ve taken away from this book: Though he’s not calling for an abolishment of feeling for others, he wants to help people realize that their empathy is getting in the way of making the best decisions. The book focuses on research and provides a persuasive argument against empathy in today’s world. It can be biased, prejudiced, innumerate, overly emotional, and sometimes selfish. In Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion, author and Yale psychologist Paul Bloom shows us that empathy isn’t perfect. Because empathy is based on emotion, not logic, it doesn’t always judge fairly. Though stepping into another’s shoes doesn’t seem all that bad, it does come with limitations. It is not to be confused with sympathy, which is feeling for someone, rather than feeling with them. If you step back and really think about empathy, you might be surprised about what it drives people to do.Įmpathy is an emotional response that allows us as humans to ‘feel’ what other people are going through. How can anyone be against empathy? Isn’t that like being against something inherently good and innocent like puppies or babies? Not exactly. If you’re like me and read the title of this book, Against Empathy, you were immediately curious. Listen to the audio of this summary with a free reading.fm account*: Watch a TED Blog playlist we published to welcome him home »Īnd a brief congrats to TED speaker Raghava KK, who was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer this week, and TED Fellows Skylar Tibbits and Marc Fornes, who were both awarded the 2013 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers. Ĭhris Hadfield alights from space with another social media masterpiece, a cover of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” along with a full-length music video. Scientists show an electronic jolt to the brain can improve mental arithmetic skills in the long-term, and without negative side-effects. The most popular way to spend time at Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center in Virginia is … reading Tolstoy? Watch a talk on philosophy in prisons » Would you be friends with Humbert Humbert? Authors weigh in on whether fictional characters ought to be likable. Ĥ2 truly stunning photos from the 2013 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest. TED speaker Paul Bloom makes a compelling case against empathy, arguing that empathy alone is not sufficient to uphold morality - and may even work against it. Here’s a round-up of the best stories on the webs this week. If you can only digest six awesome pieces of Internet content this week (plus one congrats), look no further.
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