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#29 Dacher Keltner: Survival of the Kindest

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Ampathy

In your book, you talk about ampathy deficits as a means towards losing power. If we map that to born to be good, we can probably hypothesise that it also leads to decreased happiness. Which losing power, i would imagine, would obviously cause decreased happiness. But just in general, what does, what does it mean? To have ampathy. And what is that look like? How such a nu an's questioned? We often confuse ampathy with compassion or sympathy,. Or when you feel you're concerned about some one's suffering and you want to lift up their welfare - but this isn't the case.

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