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Schubert impromptu, and you may
flinch more than others at the smashing
of bone and flesh, and you may have
been the sort of child who squirmed
horribly when you thought you’d
broken someone’s toy, but evolution
doesn’t reward such things.
Or does it?
Elaine Aron has an idea about this.
She believes that high sensitivity was
not itself selected for, but rather the
careful, reflective style that tends to accompany
it. “The type that is ‘sensitive’
or ‘reactive’ would reflect a strategy of
observing carefully before acting,” she
writes, “thus avoiding dangers, failures,
and wasted energy, which would require
a nervous system specially designed
to observe and detect subtle differences.
It is a strategy of ‘betting on a
sure thing’ or ‘looking before you leap.’
In contrast, the active strategy of the
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