ChristianKl comments on How my social skills went from horrible to mediocre - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 21 May 2015 10:38:23AM 1 point [-]

I'm saying that the aura that people attribute to them is misleading

It seems to me that you say that without having interacted with any such individuals.

Above you speak about having learned that "caring about people" requires not only thinking about their feeling but actually feeling. Other people react towards the emotional states that are in your body.

If your body would actually resonate strongly with the emotion of compassion that's something that other people can pick up. It's produces an aura for someone like Ghandi that makes other people want to follow him.

when the actual situation is that they were operating within (roughly) the same biology that all humans are.

Having the same biology is one thing, acquiring a skill at world class level in weeks or months is another.