I stumbled on it around 2009.
One of my biggest takeaways was that people's actions were more predictable when they acted in their best interests. When people tried to put the interests of others ahead of their own (to virtue signal or whatever), they became largely unpredictable.
It's about the time I started acting unapologetically selfish. #imhelping
Yep, this is why it’s so useful to understand in business in particular - people will act in their own rational self-interest 99.99% of the time and thus you can very easily discern what course of action they are most likely to take in a given scenario if you just put yourself in their shoes.
That means you have to be able to empathise.
Ironically the virtue signallers think they are supreme in the realms of empathy hence they take on other peoples causes, in reality they are addressing their own emotional needs and projecting on to others rather than operating from rational self-interest.
This is how leftists are weaponised in politics - they go for what sounds good rather than what is good.
Yeah empathy is a useful skill
