HeyJaredA Rumor of Empathy with Lou Agosta
Dedicated to expanding empathy in the individual and the community. The empathy lessons extend from a light-hearted look to a deep dive into critical issues and controversies on empathy in authentic human relations.
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Take the other person as your empathy trainer (Empathy Lesson) (opens the original)
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As an exercise, consider that the other person is one’s empathy trainer. The other individual calls forth one’s empathy. If the Other behaves in a challenging way, the challenge is to one’s empathy. A surprising powerful technique for practicing and expanding one's empathy: take each person you encounter as your empathy trainer and coach. See what a profound difference it makes! If the other person is in an emotional meltdown, the challenge is to one’s empathicreceptivity. If the other person is
Hard empathy is different than "Empathy is hard" (opens the original)
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The innovation proposed here is to think of empathy, like so many things these days, as existing on a spectrum between empathy as “empathic listening” and empathy as “tough love.” A rigorous and critical empathy includes both options, which maps to the difference between “soft empathy” and “hard empathy,” and a sliding scale of possibilities in-between. Soft empathy does not work (or at least does not work well) with bullies or a short list of difficult individuals including psychopaths and the
Empathy SELLS - but empathy's limitations sell even better! Find out what's going on with the anti-empathy movement and how to answer and debunk the dangerous half truths, lies, and total nonsense. (opens the original)
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One can always make a splash by throwing a rotten tomato, and the would-be critique of empathy uncharitably takes the weakest version of empathy and refutes it. In contrast, a rigorous and critical empathy engages in aprocess of continuous improvement of empathy by “cleaning up” the empathicbreakdowns of emotional contagion, projection, conformity, and communicationslost in translation, resulting in the expansion of empathy in the individual and the community. Yet another reason that the practic
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