Social Intelligence

My friend Ellen sent me this excerpt.....and it really struck a chord with me. When mindblind people are in the intimate circles of our lives, we are shortchanged in the most painful way.

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By Daniel Goldman -
From the Book- Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
"Mindsight amounts to peering into the minds of another person to sense their feelings and deduce their thoughts. If we lack this simple sense, we are at a loss in loving, caring, cooperating, and awkward in even the least taxing social encounter. Without mindsight, we would relate to other people as though they were objects. We would be 'mindblind'."