IMHO the examples are not the best for people living outside the US, but it's not hard to "translate" them to similar scenarios.
> how we explain the behaviour of other people is more complicated than that.
There is an exercise I like to do that is kind of the opposite of "putting yourself in other people's shoes": it's "putting someone you dislike in your shoes". The idea is to imagine someone you dislike doing something you have done and analyse what you would think of that person. I call it reverse-empathy and it is revealing how it changes the story :).
one way to be more creative is to just pretend you are someone else. like, 'if my friend X was going to explain this thing, how would they explain it, what questions would they ask' etc
That idea sounds good, but for some reason that's very difficult for me. I can't "think like someone else".... BUT there is something similar that I do consciously all the time: adapt my thinking and speech to the person in front of me. And I do it to the extreme.
Why can I do the latter but not the former if both exercises require a "simulation" of the other person? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
IMHO the examples are not the best for people living outside the US, but it's not hard to "translate" them to similar scenarios.
> how we explain the behaviour of other people is more complicated than that.
There is an exercise I like to do that is kind of the opposite of "putting yourself in other people's shoes": it's "putting someone you dislike in your shoes". The idea is to imagine someone you dislike doing something you have done and analyse what you would think of that person. I call it reverse-empathy and it is revealing how it changes the story :).
i think that has a pretty strong cognitive basis.
one way to be more creative is to just pretend you are someone else. like, 'if my friend X was going to explain this thing, how would they explain it, what questions would they ask' etc
That idea sounds good, but for some reason that's very difficult for me. I can't "think like someone else".... BUT there is something similar that I do consciously all the time: adapt my thinking and speech to the person in front of me. And I do it to the extreme.
Why can I do the latter but not the former if both exercises require a "simulation" of the other person? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯