Let’s face it, 1000 might look like a long list but spare a thought for gazillions of brands that never made it onto the radar.  So what’s the difference between the elite few here and the vast majority of also-rans?  Empathy.&nbs…

Do you prioritize other people’s feelings over your own? You might be falling into the “empathy trap.”

Empathy is having its moment. The ability to feel what another person is feeling, from that person’s perspective, generates lots of press as the ultimate positive value and the pathway to a kinder, less violent world. Schools across the country are teaching empathy to children, and myriad books explore it from every possible angle: how to get it, why it makes you a better person, how its absence can breed evil.

Empathy is exalted by thinkers from Zen Buddhist monk Thích Nhâ’t Hąnh to British writer Roman Krznaric, who just launched an online Empathy Museum where you can virtually step into someone else’s shoes. Established scientists like primatologist Frans de Waal and developmental psychiatrist Daniel Siegel explore the deep roots of empathy in animals and its essential nature in humans.

By Robin Stern, Diana Divecha

As I watched my students through the last hour of the panel, I began to understand how much more difficult my challenge is than I previously thought. “Listening” is at the center of an education: It takes many forms (visual, auditory, sensory), but is …

“It’s a very tricky thing to recognize that people are deliberately hiding what they mean,” Pexman says. “Children have to listen and look beyond the words to what’s in the mind of the speaker and the emotion they’re…