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Aug 8, 2015
"You never really understand another person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."
—Harper Lee
Can You Teach People to Have Empathy?
"According to the latest neuroscience research, 98% of people (the exceptions include those with psychopathic tendencies) have the ability to empathise wired into their brains -- an in-built capacity for stepping into the shoes of others and understanding their feelings and perspectives.The problem is that most don't tap into their full empathic potential in everyday life."
BE THE CHANGE
Try one or more of the strategies to exercise your empathy muscle -- practice radical listening, loo for the human in another, and be curious. Reflect on how this shifts your own moment, day, attitude!
