I appreciate your candor. Even if you are high up on the narc scale (I can’t say whether you are or not since I don’t know you) and you are introspective enough to realize you need to be more empathetic, I can bet you are still not at the absolute extreme. If that was the case, you wouldn’t be introspective at all! But I’ll tell you some narcissism is definitely healthy and needed. I used to be an echoist, which is the opposite to a narc. Everyone else’s needs matter except for the Echoists.. until I’ve more than had enough. I’m glad that’s not who I am anymore because it was terrible. I am organizing an article about echoism. Hope to have it done soon.. depending on my schedule next week.