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#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works

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Empathy for Someone Who Is Unlike You

Empathy requires to have empathy for someone who is unlike you requires learning and practice. I had this epiphany really after listening to Robert Reich's the system he was talking about oligarchy versus democracy so oligarchy is where very wealthy people like extremely wealthy people shift power so that they become even more wealthy and even more insulated from the pressures of the common person it's actually the kind of system that leads to the collapse of civilizations if you believe Jared Diamond just say that but anyways  I'm sure I'm but you had something in the gas tank well I in order to empathize with others there has to be a constant need for adjusting and learning and learning and experience novel things, says

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