There is no quick solution to help individuals reconnect to the real world and restore their sense of empathy, but there is a clear starting point: Put down the phone.
Mental rigidity makes us less resilient and less empathetic.
At the other end of the spectrum is mental flexibility, which is associated with being able to entertain new information or perspectives and to modify goal-seeking or problem-solving tactics once it is recognized that a specific approach is not working. This ability to quickly adapt is central to the concept of. A person with greater mental flexibility can respond better to circumstantial demands and will have the capacity to navigate difficult social situations.
As much as empathy is prosocial, it is also linked to our own ability to sand down the sharper corners of our emotions. As Jean Decetyin a 2010 paper on the neurodevelopment of empathy, “Empathic concern is strongly related to effortful control, with children high in effortful control showing greater empathic concern.” Empathy gives us the capacity to recognize the emotions of others and helps us understand what an appropriate emotional response is to specific social situations.
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