In addition, narcissism, which correlates negatively with empathy, is on the rise amongst university-aged students. Narcissists, by definition, are extremely self-focused and tend to see other people in terms of their usefulness rather than true friendship—not exactly a recipe for empathy. I see it every day in a 50+ age bracket. I live in a coop (I'm secretary of the board), a few weeks back, I tried to open the door to the emergency escape - 2 feet of snow blocked the way. So I cleaned up the 3 stories. I then put a notice on our bulletin board: We would like people on each floor to VOLUNTEER to shovel the snow after every snowfall BEFORE we put this as a compulsory chore. Well, guess what after 3 weeks I did my share 3 times and an another neighbour did it 2 (we're 6 on the floor) and the others NADA. So this morning we (the president and myself) decided to make this: COMPULSORY to be done with the floor cleaning (which we take turns to do). I can't wait to see how much protest we're going to get...
On Dec 19, 2013 L.Lalancette wrote:
In addition, narcissism, which correlates negatively with empathy, is on the rise amongst
university-aged students. Narcissists, by definition, are extremely
self-focused and tend to see other people in terms of their usefulness
rather than true friendship—not exactly a recipe for empathy.
I see it every day in a 50+ age bracket. I live in a coop (I'm secretary of the board), a few weeks back, I tried to open the door to the emergency escape - 2 feet of snow blocked the way. So I cleaned up the 3 stories. I then put a notice on our bulletin board: We would like people on each floor to VOLUNTEER to shovel the snow after every snowfall BEFORE we put this as a compulsory chore. Well, guess what after 3 weeks I did my share 3 times and an another neighbour did it 2 (we're 6 on the floor) and the others NADA. So this morning we (the president and myself) decided to make this: COMPULSORY to be done with the floor cleaning (which we take turns to do). I can't wait to see how much protest we're going to get...