Your story about the book-fair book gone wrong was hilarious by the way.

I had a nice baby-sitter called Adele when I was a little kid!

It is boo! Picture the Dead still does sound awesome though, and I still want to read it.

Okay! I will read True Murder by Yaba Badoe!

I think you could at least learn how to behave the same way someone who feels empathy would behave. And maybe eventually empathy itself would kick in too. It’s like how I am not naturally patient with lateness, but living in New York you cannot fret about every single minute that someone is late (or that you are late), because the subways control that more than you do. So I practiced acting like I minded less.

(I do actually now mind less. Hooray, it worked!)

I DID like to know. You know me so well.

Whoa, is there? Does she ALSO write slightly creepy YA?

ooh Jenny, thank you for pointing that out. High prevalence is definitely exaggerated. My apologies to CEOs and entrepreneurs. And I should be careful about writing ‘This is true…’ 🙂

We absolutely teach empathy to small children. I dunno if you can still teach it to adults. You definitely cannot teach it to real sociopaths, because the actual structure of their brains is different, but if he’s not one, maybe he can still learn it.

Well, I just read a book about sociopaths, and there was a pretty big study about the CEO/ entrepreneur thing, and what they said was that the incidence of sociopathy in the general population is about 2-3%, but in high levels of corporate management, however their study defined that, it’s more like 5%. So “high prevalence” is probably exaggerated, but “almost double the usual incidence” is still kind of whack.