I very strongly disagree. You can learn empathy, and teach it. There are whole books about learning to model other people.
"How to win friends and influence people" is, in many ways, all about empathy, for instance.
(Let me distinguish for a moment that there are people out there who have psychological conditions that make it incredibly hard for them to model other people. I don't know how to address that, offhand.)
I very strongly disagree. You can learn empathy, and teach it. There are whole books about learning to model other people.
"How to win friends and influence people" is, in many ways, all about empathy, for instance.
(Let me distinguish for a moment that there are people out there who have psychological conditions that make it incredibly hard for them to model other people. I don't know how to address that, offhand.)