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Have you ever been in the company of those who go on and on about their (real and imagined) accomplishments?
Have you ever noticed how quickly they lose interest when the spotlight shifts to other topics?
Tia Ghose of Live
Science reports that braggarts have “trouble imagining how they would feel if the situations were reversed.” In
other words, they have difficulty empathizing with listeners who grow “annoyed, upset or angry” from an overabundance of self-promotion.
Michael Norton of the Harvard Business School explains, “I think we tend to be pretty self-focused; we tend to not understand that other people think differently about the world.”
In other words, we (all) tend to be empathetically challenged. We find it difficult to walk a mile in another’s moccasins. Nevertheless, the world could be a lot more peaceful if we took a few such steps each day.
Resources
http://news.yahoo.com/braggers-gonna-brag-usually-backfires-111835138.html
Copyright May 19, 2015 by Linda Van Slyke All Rights Reserved
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