How to Inspire Empathy in Insensitives & Knuckleheads

How to Inspire Empathy in Even the Toughest of Hearts As a...

How to Inspire Empathy in Even the Toughest of Hearts As a hyper-sensitive person (in a good way), I sometimes struggle when I’m in intimate relationships with brainiacs, tough-guys, robots, and those who place feelings on the bottom shelf.

If I’m not careful, I can become quite the whiny little needy weenie. Or an unreasonable, self-righteous dick. This article is for how to inspire empathy if you feel the same.

I’m hitting this one hard because I’m done with the pattern.

Now, instead of succumbing to a victim-mind, when I sense the other person is demonstrating an "under-empathy", I educate them, doubling-down on compassion, with the hope that a tiny percentage will trickle into the heart of the other person.