Morten Rand-HendriksenWhen we put empathy in the driver’s seat, we quite literally put ourselves in someone else’s shoes. We are not basing our actions on the true experiences of others but rather projecting ourselves onto them: Were I in t…

f we do not develop a sense of empathy, the ability to experience the pain and joy of another, we will destroy ourselves;Empathy for the African American male stopped by the police for the umpteenth time for no good reason; Empathy for the police,…

Though I had been practicing these techniques for a fair amount of time, it took Richard Russo’s statement to bring the realization that what I was practicing was empathy. I wasn’t stealing characteristics while people-watching, or inventin…