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What is empathy?

Alex says most people can't define empathy and breaks it into concrete components: acknowledging feelings, asking about them, nodding, and naming the emotion rather than just repeating words back.

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Key takeaways

  • But like they don't know anything.
  • So like empathy for example, it's you say I need you to be more empathetic.
  • Most people do not know what that means.

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  1. 0:00
    Abschnitt 1 The vast majority of people have no idea what they're talking about.
  2. 0:25
    Abschnitt 2 Yeah, that'd be it'd be a component of it.

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0:00The vast majority of people have no idea what they're talking about. Like most people just repeat the same phrases they hear from other people that they got reinforced for saying so they nod their heads because of people said great job when they said it. But like they don't know anything. Yeah. So like empathy for example, it's you say I need you to be more empathetic. Most people do not know what that means. How do [music] I exhibit empathy? How can I look at a human being and say empathy occurred?

0:25Yeah, that'd be it'd be a component of it. Now, if somebody only recapped, you'd probably be like, "You sound like a [ __ ] robot." Maybe you also nod while they're talking. That's another component of it. Maybe you just say like, [music] "I feel I'm sorry that it felt that way." Then maybe they have like at least twice you acknowledged how they felt during a situation or you asked about their feeling. And then maybe just asking about their feeling.