![]() ![]() We are so focused on an individual that we can make irrational decisions that aren’t beneficial to a larger initiative or organization.įrom actually promoting biases (we are empathic with our own type of people) to innumeracy (this one person is more important than the 100 or 1000 others) to increasing our stress levels (increased empathy has shown higher suffering later in the week), our perspective can be skewed with too much empathy. But ultimately, what many executives I speak with are finding (paired with very interesting research), a misinterpretation of empathy is forcing us to lose sight of a bigger picture. And, of course, it has value - when put in the appropriate context. In reading Paul Bloom’s Against Empathy, I’ve found that much of the assumption around empathy can be misplaced and misunderstood.Įmpathy has its place. ![]() ![]() ![]() When we hear the word empathy, we often think it to be something that is entirely positive and helpful, but what if this is not the case? Like many other buzzwords, the word ‘empathy’ has been thrown around so much that it has begun to mean something entirely different. ![]()
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