Dr. Dan Siegel tells us how mirror neurons work and how humans react when mirror neurons are stimulated.”We are hard-wired to perceive the mind of another being.”See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion

Daniel Siegel M.D. is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute. His training is in pediatrics and child, adolescent and adult psychiatry. Dan is the author of many books o…

1) EMPATHY to truly CARE about people’s needs? Caring about people’s needs requires empathy. When Donald Trump says, “I don’t like losers,” it doesn’t show empathy for people who may have lost their jobs, their homes…

Donald Trump owns the fatal political and business flaw. Trump has a big problem. In his 2016 run for Presidency, Trump daily flashes his grand flaw, the one that will keep him out of the White House: a lack of empathy.He is incapable of jump…

Rather than trying to use empathy as a shallow marketing tactic, empathy should become a deeper, more transformational form of compassion:1 authentic empathy can actually make a difference in people’s lives.As an example of this principle at work…