Happy New Year. I found you through my Google Alert on empathy, which took me to your post "What Is Empathy?" One other physical and practical way to increase your readers' empathy is ALWAYS to link whatever you're writing about to the word empathy. All ideas are physically located in our neural pathways and get there through experience and language. We also know from cognitive science that every conversation - written or verbal - is moral and political. So whatever your topic, if you can link it to empathy, the soul of democracy, you are helping to expand empathy in the brains of your readers physically. By the way, we are always looking for new members at Empathy Surplus Network USA. Keep it up. #GoEmpathySurplus
Happy New Year. I found you through my Google Alert on empathy, which took me to your post "What Is Empathy?" One other physical and practical way to increase your readers' empathy is ALWAYS to link whatever you're writing about to the word empathy. All ideas are physically located in our neural pathways and get there through experience and language. We also know from cognitive science that every conversation - written or verbal - is moral and political. So whatever your topic, if you can link it to empathy, the soul of democracy, you are helping to expand empathy in the brains of your readers physically. By the way, we are always looking for new members at Empathy Surplus Network USA. Keep it up. #GoEmpathySurplus
Thank you for this helpful information. I will look up your organization.
Mark Twain—tucking philosophy in the corners of his humor. 😊🐶
He has a lot of good observations, many of which are about dogs.
Sounds like you are an empath.
I'm pretty sure that's true.
Excellent advice for navigating these trying times. 💗
Healing doesn't happen in a vacuum. We need to build community.
I wholeheartedly agree.
Beautifully put! Thank you. So much to relate to, here, including an inability to watch ASPCA ads 😢 and the tolerance paradox.
Yes. I think the first step to understanding others is understanding ourselves.