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The Importance of Emotional Intelligence
There are jobs in which too much empathy is going to impede your ability to success. People who are very high in trait empathy, so very high in agreeableness, they are easy to take advantage of and tend to become resentful and bitter. And then there's an interesting twist here too. I read a book a while back called Billion Wicked Thoughts that analyzed pornography use between men and women. It found the classic literary pornography plot was something like relatively innocent, but undervalued and attractive, but not so obviously attractive.