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to behold the universe through the eyes of another.
that he had lost his wife to disease and could no longer care for his children.
I was startled by the incongruity of a hard-looking farmer sobbing.
your brain’s greatest skill is its ability to think about the minds of others in order to understand them better.
how to become wiser about the minds of others.
The kind that enables you to build and maintain the intimate relationships that make life worth living,
Your sixth sense is running in high gear nearly all of the time, from the moment you get up in the morning and dress to impress to when you lie awake at night wondering whether others find you intelligent or not, trustworthy or not, or really love you or not.
No human being succeeds in life alone.
Knowing the minds of others is essential for social success
because it enables you to anticipate what others are going to say before they say it, to know what others want before they choose it, and to predict an opponent’s move before he makes it.
I use the basic principles of the scientific method to understand why you think, act, and feel as you do.
to learn exactly how, and how well, you reason about the thoughts, motives, attitudes, beliefs, and emotions of others.
This ability is one of your brain’s greatest because it allows you to achieve one of the most important goals in any human life: connecting, deep...
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of these mistakes have the same basic consequence of leading us to think that others’ minds are more simplistic than they actually are.
Human beings have been explaining one another for millennia
This is why those with greater social sensitivity have stronger friendships, better marriages, and are happier with their lives in general.
thoughtful strategies.
