Social psych has so much to say on the subject of perspective taking. But one of my favorite findings is that when you take the perspective of another person, you actually start to see both yourself and the other person as more similar. It's called trait transfer and it's a mix of seeing their traits in yourself and your traits in them.
I will also cosign the part about motherhood changing your brain in unexepcted ways. I feel like it activated a primal, protective part of me that I didn't know about before. I now think mothers are dangerous creatures, but luckily for all of us tend toward peace :)
I feel like this series is capturing a line of thought I’ve been following most of my life. It started with the early realization that to know what it’s like to be someone else logically necessitates forgetting what it’s like to be “me” and thus losing the frame of reference. Most recently it’s been stepping away from academia in part because teaching economics as a neurodivergent person from the 1900’s feels like trying to explain color theory to the color blind—valuable, but only possible if the students are ready and able to listen.
Social psych has so much to say on the subject of perspective taking. But one of my favorite findings is that when you take the perspective of another person, you actually start to see both yourself and the other person as more similar. It's called trait transfer and it's a mix of seeing their traits in yourself and your traits in them.
I will also cosign the part about motherhood changing your brain in unexepcted ways. I feel like it activated a primal, protective part of me that I didn't know about before. I now think mothers are dangerous creatures, but luckily for all of us tend toward peace :)
I feel like this series is capturing a line of thought I’ve been following most of my life. It started with the early realization that to know what it’s like to be someone else logically necessitates forgetting what it’s like to be “me” and thus losing the frame of reference. Most recently it’s been stepping away from academia in part because teaching economics as a neurodivergent person from the 1900’s feels like trying to explain color theory to the color blind—valuable, but only possible if the students are ready and able to listen.