Here’s a nifty little test of empathy, thanks to Northwestern social psychologist Adam Galinsky and friends. Ask your boss [or anyone, for that matter] to draw the letter E on her forehead. Before you read more, do it yourself. [Index fingers work as well as pens.]
Now … which way did you draw the E: so it’s legible to you and backward to others, or legible to others and backward to you?
According to Galinsky and crew, people who draw the E so it’s legible to others