Great stuff, Caleb! I find myself constantly struggling to write about the situations and people in my life in a way that doesn't feel like me "reacting" to them passive aggressively. Even though it definitely sometimes is.. ha.
Haha, yeah rationalism and repression, I know. But depending on the situation it's useful to try to understand a person or group of people by their background and personality e.g. if they are poor, middle class, like a certain musical genre etc.
This might avoid conflicts if you are having problems with them.
And what surpasses the "trying to understand" I explained is obviously the empathy, women are better at it as anyone with common sense knows.
Oh and I've forgotten, there's exceptions when it is naive to apply either simpathy or empathy, it is with your BOSS, a bureaucrat/professional, an idiot really, agressively wanting trouble with you, and so on.
If that is J's case then he can let the cat out of the bag!
Loved this one! Smart work
Thanks, Hal
Great stuff, Caleb! I find myself constantly struggling to write about the situations and people in my life in a way that doesn't feel like me "reacting" to them passive aggressively. Even though it definitely sometimes is.. ha.
Thanks J. It’s nearly unavoidable in writing, it seems. Have to be careful with those relationships
You need apply what Spinoza wrote: “I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.”
Well, if Spinoza really understood humans, then he’d know it’s impossible for us to live without laughter, weeping and hatred
Haha, yeah rationalism and repression, I know. But depending on the situation it's useful to try to understand a person or group of people by their background and personality e.g. if they are poor, middle class, like a certain musical genre etc.
This might avoid conflicts if you are having problems with them.
And what surpasses the "trying to understand" I explained is obviously the empathy, women are better at it as anyone with common sense knows.
Oh and I've forgotten, there's exceptions when it is naive to apply either simpathy or empathy, it is with your BOSS, a bureaucrat/professional, an idiot really, agressively wanting trouble with you, and so on.
If that is J's case then he can let the cat out of the bag!