Interpersonal versus social empathy

I talk about empathy on here quite a bit ( there’s a whole category for it), as it’s a skill I’m working to improve in my own life. The more I read and learn about it, the more my skill of empathy slowly improves.

Until now, though, I’ve largely thought of empathy as a personal thing — trying to understand the thoughts and feelings of a particular person. That’s not wrong, but that’s not the whole…