“They’re never going to change their mind, so empathizing doesn’t matter.”
That statement might be true if we believe the only purpose of empathy is to change the other person. Approaching…
“I’m afraid I’ll have to change once I truly see them and understand their perspective.”
Empathy by its very nature presents us with new ideas, perspectives, and emotional responses. But we get to decide what we do with all the new material.
It’s easy to project our beliefs, principles, and preferences on others and then judge them accordingly. We can choose to only engage with people who look, think, and…
Empathy is about understanding another person’s point of view. It’s learning what they believe and hearing their story without passing judgment.
We live in a broken, divided world. Tragedy, corruption, natural disasters, injustice, and discrimination…