The Importance of Empathy

Timothy Stanley: We have this implicit incentive system where we want to make sure the sympathy and attention get allocated to the people who sort of need slash deserve it the most. But when you do, you spend a little bit of credit, meaning that if you're constantly bidding for it, people will like start to be a little more reluctant to give it to you unless you've made a really strong case why you need it more than other people. And so what's happening in the case of like humble bragging and vague booking is people are trying to bid for things without spending the credit. So they're like trying to get the attention and sympathy without like showing that they want it and just being