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What Empathy Asks Us to Do
Welcome back to Infinite Threads. I’m your host Bob.
Yesterday, we spent some time with empathy—that strange and beautiful human ability to step outside our own experience long enough to recognize that another person’s inner world is every bit as real as ours.
Today, I want to go one step further.
Because empathy helps us understand.
Compassion asks what we’re going to do with that understanding.
That doesn’t mean every time we feel someone else’s pain we’re suddenly responsible for fixing their life. In fact, one of the quickest ways to turn compassion into exhaustion is to believe we have…
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