This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Empathy is the missing link to innovation and children can help us find it.See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion

Psychopathy is characterized by a general antisocial lifestyle with behaviors including being selfish, manipulative, impulsive, fearless, callous, possibly domineering, and particularly lacking in empathy. Contagious yawning in our species has been str…

Mary Kenny considers the Golden Rule as a means to combat bullying It is being proposed by UNESCO that one of the ways to combat bullying in schools is to teach “empathy” to young children. The dictionary definition of empathy is &ldqu…

Rather, the self-compassionate attitude in these statements has tremendous power to help achieve goals, reduce stress, and promote mental, physical and emotional well-being.An exciting and fast-growing body of research is finding that practicing self-c…