CaSE: Conversations about Software Engineering cover image

Michele Hansen on Customer Interviews and Deploying Empathy

CaSE: Conversations about Software Engineering

CHAPTER

Compassion Is Trying to Understand Someone's Experience

Ampathy is seeking to understand some one else's experience, even when it differs from your own. And putting your own opinion of it aside. Compassion also comes through as an action. You see someone who is cold, and you put a blanket around them,. Like i, i think of that as compassion. Someone is hungry, and you give them food, andou, you know, you help them with that. A ampathy is different. We're talked about with sympathy, em when you say, i'm sorry, baabla, right? This happened to you, you're centring yourself. But the point is to understand their perspective on what they are going through -

00:00
Transcript
Play full episode

Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts

Save insights instantly, chat with episodes, and build lasting knowledge - all powered by AI.
App store bannerPlay store banner