We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, scientists and philisophers agree that the only problem with empathy is that we don't have enough of it. Some degree of emotional empathy is bred in the bone. The sight and sound of another's suffering is unplesant for babies and, as soon as they are mobile enough, they try to help, patting and soothing others in destress. This is not uniquely human: Empathy can occur automatically, even involuntarily. Far from gelping us to improve the lives of others, empathy is a capricious and irrational emotion that appeals to our narrow prejudices. It muddles our judgment and, ironically, often leads to cruelty. We are at our best when we are smart enough not to rely on it, but to draw instead upon a more distanced compassion.

In This book you will learn: - Empathy as the key to positive human interaction -The importance of empathy - The problem with empathy -How to teach your kids empathy - How to develop empathy When it comes to both major policy decisions and the choises we make in our everyday lives, limiting our impulse toward empathy is often the most compassionate choise we can make Find our a lot more inside the book!.