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Managing Humans - The Neuroscience of Empathy

Your Brain at Work

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What's the Difference Between Compassion and Sympathy?

Compassion is different from sympathy and empathy. It involves doing something to help the person whois feeling distress, or sharing their experience in some kind of effortful way. So when we act compassionately, it's actually very rewarding to do so. And practising compassion seems to activate reward n etworks. But maybe even do a lot more than that. Weou know what we know about compassion more broadly, how does it affect us?

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