Can't fake empathy

Daniel Pink's chapter on Empathy in his book A Whole New Mind, he talks about what empathy is why we need it to survive in left brain dominated world. He also makes some suggestions for improving our empathy power. Writing your own cards and taking acting classes were some of creative suggestions for improving empathy. Pink's quote still resonates in my head “you can't fake empathy” There were doctors, teachers, and co-workers that I have interacted with whom I could obviously tell that they were trying to be empathetic. They either read Pink's book or had some sensitivity training about being empathetic, but I could tell that they're not genuine.

Pink also briefly touches on femininely right brain and masculinely left brain and he does not clearly states that men are more detach and less empathetic and women are more attach and more empathetic. It reminded me of plastic pollutants in the environment effecting mammals to be more masculine. However, regardless of gender, everyone in Conceptual Age needs to be able to balance between detachment and attachment.