“The quieter you become the more you can hear.” — Baba Ram DasI spent years and years battling my quiet temperament, trying to become the extroverted personality that it seemed everyone wanted me to be. It was not until I paused for a…
Daily Archives: 29/12/2013
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At the heart of our friendship was empathy. Empathy is what allows us to cross boundaries, whether between “self’ and “other” or “us” and “them.” Empathy is about understanding how the world looks from an…
At a recent conference, Brené Brown has recently suggested that empathy is far more valuable than sympathy. The video, with a snapshot of her talk, has reached nearly one million and a half views on Youtube in a little over t…
Christian Jarrett offers “a calm look at the most hyped concept in neuroscience — mirror neurons,” which have been linked to human empathy and “the birth of human culture”: [W]e do not yet have the research …
Last year I suggested that mirror neurons are the most hyped concept in neuroscience. Discovered in the 90s by neuroscientists in Italy studying monkeys, these are motor cells in the brain (involved in the control of movement) that are also a…
In a new study, researchers believe they are the first to systematically pinpoint and catalog compassionate words and actions in doctor-patient conversations. For example, “Good to see you. I’m sorry. It sounds like you’ve h…