Dr Jordan B PetersonVerified account

Sure, that’s what we need. More caution and avoidance of overdoing the empathy thing.

self-declared empaths are like self-declared thought-leaders: never known one who actually was.. just overly sensitive to emotional cues, prone to misinterpreting them, and assuming others feel the way they'd feel themselves

" Perpetually indulged children do not grow into the kind of adults who benefit society." Ah, the best explanation I've ever heard for the character of our President.

Is this why childless and unmarried women own dozens of cats and fall in love with trees?

He says empathy is useless for first responders, a job that exists because we collectively empathise with people who are hurt and need help. That's why they don't need to empathise to be good at their job, it's implicitive. The value judgement has already been made by society.