In the last post, I wrote about the halo effect. In this post, I leave the reader with a few notes regarding empathy - a skill essential these days when emotions are running high due to the influx of information that is not always easy to digest.

Encyclopedia Britannica gives a straightforward explanation of what the halo effect is. According to the editors, it is "an error in reasoning in which an impression formed from a single trait or characteristic is allowed to influence multiple judgments or ratings of unrelated factors." Is that all? An error in judgment. Or, perhaps there is more to it.

Many of our memories lie below the surface with only a few poking above. Our conscious memories are connected beneath the surface. The same is true of skills.