Can you ‘feel’ the music? You’re probably an empathetic person(psyche.co)

1 pointsby Rimintil4 lata temu1 comments

Can you ‘feel’ the music? You’re probably an empathetic person

https://psyche.co/ideas/can-you-feel-the-music-youre-probably-an-empathetic-person

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jfengel4 lata temu

Huh. I'm not especially good at music -- I can play music but I don't especially enjoy it. I don't get the urge to dance, and I'm only so-so at feeling the beat. I'm not tone-deaf or otherwise pathologically bad at it. I'm just not better than average, and perhaps worse.

But I'm very empathetic, to the point that it's a problem. I'm not woo-woo about it; the word "empath" has taken on some really dumb new-agey connotations. But I am better-than-average at picking up on people's emotional signals, and they matter to me a lot.

(All of those are my own self-reported self-assessments, so take them with a grain of salt.)

That's the opposite of the arrow of causation in TFA, so perhaps it's not worth mentioning. But I take TFA to suggest that it's not just one-way, and if so, I'm a single, anecdotal data point against the other direction. Whatever I'm doing when being "empathic", it doesn't seem at all to be linked to music.