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Daniel Goleman
Personal blog · danielgoleman.infoscienceculture
Daniel Goleman's personal blog at danielgoleman.info covers science and culture. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog to explain the three kinds of empathy: cognitive, emotional, and empathic concern. Commenters cite it as a reference point rather than praising the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /three-kinds-of-empathy-cognitive-emotional-compassionate/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-04-22
What Hacker News says?
I see a lot of answers that revolve around the question of "how to make the most effective use of the limited time I have". A very rationalistic point of view (no surprise since it's HN). I'll give a different perspective: trust your gut feelings! In Emotional Intelligence, the author Daniel Goleman[1] writes > [Some of life's big decisions] cannot be made well through sheer rationality; they require gut feeling, an…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: I want to be an expert in many things but my lifetime won't be enough”Submitted Grit and Cognitive Control better indicators of Success than intelligence as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"cognitive empathy" (as it's called in this article) isn't all there is to empathy: http://www.danielgoleman.info/three-kinds-of-empathy-cogniti...
Comment linking /three-kinds-of-empathy-cognitive-emotional-compassionate/
on “Empathic concern does not reduce partisan animosity: study”Submitted Using social-emotional learning to stop bullying as a story · 2 points
HN discussionEmpathy has multiple dimensions, so all the different perspectives are partly right. Cognitive empathy: is seeing things through your perspective Emotional empathy: I feel what you feel Emphatic concern: I care for your well-being http://www.danielgoleman.info/three-kinds-of-empathy-cogniti... Edit: added reference
Comment linking /three-kinds-of-empathy-cognitive-emotional-compassionate/
on “What is empathy?”> Ultimately, it is the parent's socio-economic status which usually dictates what jobs their children will have. That's not an agreed upon fact. For example, a cursory googling of "correlation between iq and job" brings up a lot of articles with language like "This is why hundreds of studies have found that IQ predicts job performance best (though not all that well) at the start of a person’s career, and progressiv…
Comment linking /the-trouble-with-iq/
on “After your job is gone”
