The Science of Empathy, with Stanford Professor Jamil Zaki
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The Stereotype of Hardwired Brains
There's a Stereotype that we have culturally that if something happens in our brain that means it's quote-unquote hardwired That is a phrase. We're hardwired to be this way or that way If there's anything that I hope your listeners could take away from this Conversation right off the bat. It's to remove the word hardwired from your vocabulary because the brain is an incredibly Adaptive organ and when we change our brain does as well. There's one study that I love that came out of the Max Planck Institute in Germany They had people engage in different types of meditation That are supposed to according to ancient traditions and Buddhism Enhance our capacity for empathy. People who did
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