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This book will make you kinder

This Book Will Make You Kinder  An Empathy Handbook HENRY JAMES GARRETT SOUVENIR PRESS Copyright@by Henry James Garrett, 2020 Contents  Introduction 1 Why ask, "Why are we kind?" 2 We are kind because of empathy 3 Empathy evolved 4 Empathy has an off switch 5 The unequal distribution of empathy-limiting mistakes 6 Mistakes that can turn empathy off 7 Exercising empathy Conclusion What to read next Acknowledgments Notes This is a book about kindness as well as its absence and opposite. For that reason, it includes examples of cruelties no one should experience, which many people do. Violence, trauma, and oppression alter the mind-body in ways that those of us privileged enough to have avoided such experiences are rarely cognizant of. An unexpected reference that calls forth a memory' or triggers something bodily in someone who has survived what they should never have experienced can cause intolerable suffering. Requests for content notes, then, are not cases of people bein...