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Strategic Empathy: Distinguishing Resource from Vigilance
Kamini Wood explores "strategic empathy," a highly developed ability to read rooms, track micro-signals, and anticipate emotional shifts in others. While frequently praised as a natural leadership trait or intuitive gift, Wood reframes this constant attunement as a survival mechanism learned in early childhood to navigate unpredictable or conflict-heavy environments. She highlights the steep cost of this autopilot hyper-vigilance, explaining how high achievers often absorb the disappointment and resentment of everyone around them, leaving their own emotional states offline and their bodies…
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