Being an empath I am one to take note of the feelings of others. I have been known to become exceedingly happy at the drop of the hat. I have also cried in the presence of others for no apparent reason. This is due to those perceptions I encounter eminating from others. It is a double edged sword.
For example, I lost a friend long ago due to a recoil accident with a large caliber weapon and that mishap was perceived correctly by me when a news cast gave a thumbnail description whereby I called my director immediately and told her what I felt. As it turns out I was totally correct in what I thought had happened and the sad business of final goodbyes then became necessary.
While I sometimes experience personal embarassment being a "so-called" emotional man; it has also saved me other times from situations when I might have been injured or killed.
Intuition is a strong aspect of this characteristic. I have a long history of risk taking after conscious reasoning. I don't go there without sufficient pondering of those outcomes possible to the situation.
Bypassing this, I have also written some very insightful code by using deductions made by elimination of various elements from a set of facts. This reductive supposition has provided several avenues of AI branching that have been useful to my career over the years.
I am not a psychic medium, but I am fortunate to have the ability to read between the lines for the right decision in various times of need or wonder.