Mindfulness Today: “Mindfulness provides an avenue to cultivate empathy, patience, and a sense of free will based on taking responsibility for our actions” with Michael Perry

A healthy and uplifting work culture begins with the individual and is based on truth. In her book Radical Candor, Kim Scott introduces the concept that you cannot have an effective foundation of truth without empathy. Mindfulness provides an avenue to cultivate empathy, patience, and a sense of free will based on taking responsibility for our actions. By turning our awareness inside of ourselves, we come to realize that our thoughts are often filled with chatter about the past and the future when it’s the present moment that’s most important. Calming this noise helps us live an entirely different life. We learn to think not just of ourselves, but of others, and to respond to the present moment with clear, unbiased…