Comment by Patrick Rollo (patrick-rollo) on Training Regime Day 6: Seeking Sense · 2020-02-21T01:47:21.285Z · LW · GW

Many years ago, I’m 46 now, so this would have been 26-28 years ago, I was introduced to the concept referred to as empathic assertion. It was a course in cognitive psychology that I was taking and the idea introduced was placing your empathic, or sensing/feeling self into the “shoes“ of another that was experiencing some type or sort of emotional experience. What you’re writing here reminds me of that practice. To be transparent, I adopted this as a life skill that I still use to this day.