[Rerun] Robert Greene on The Laws of Human Nature
The Psychology Podcast
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The Power of Empathy
The point of my book is to become aware of our nature so that we can use it for productive purposes. So the awareness part, like I say, there's a lower and a higher self within all of us. Lower self is this animal self that wants everything easy and simple and fast. The higher self takes effort. It doesn't come naturally or easy to us. Empathy is a very powerful force within us that is a potential. And the problem is that it's something that is like a muscle that attributes that we don't use very much,. That needs to be brought out.
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