The job of empathy is not actually to fix other people, because ther people are not in our control. I think oftentimes we overestimate how much people want us solve their problems. Even without fixing your friend's problem, you might be doing a lot more by being a friend to that individual. D is there any point at which you think you need to step back?
Since Covid hit, many of us have seen fewer people and experienced more loneliness. Listener Ivana Cole wants to know what we can do to reconnect and asks, if we can't reconnect: "Can we be happy alone?"
Dr Laurie Santos looks at social connections and how make them with Stanford's Jamil Zaki (author of the War for Kindness).
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