How to Build Empathy and Avoid Burnout
A Slight Change of Plans
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Empathy: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
The more we believe that we can change our empathy, the more successful we'll be at empathizing with others. In a series of experiments, Carol Dweck and her colleagues asked people to read essays about how they could grow their empathy. The very situations that sometimes put walls up against our empathy, like difference, were hard for them to overcome. People who had just taught that empathy was a skill worked harder at it, including in trying to overcome biases.
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