The Science of Empathy, with Stanford Professor Jamil Zaki
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The Importance of Humility in Conflict
I think that there are many cases in which people make the conscious choice to shut off their empathy in the face of conflict maybe because they say I don't feel safe around a crunchy peanut butter fan. It's just a total waste of time and to that I would say Everyone's autonomous and can make those choices. Nobody owes empathy to anybody else That said, when we Try to challenge ourselves a little bit more Try to be curious about somebody even if it's not our first instinct We can be astonished by what comes of that. Underneath this divide right we canbe astonished by all we have in commonWe can be astonishedby the opportunities that we find.
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