Jamil Zaki: The Hopeful Skeptic
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The Importance of Empathy in Burnout
The Matuber card story is really instructive because here's somebody who can modulate their mental and emotional state in a way that most people can't. He actually was able to tap into what you could call pure forms of different empathy, right? Pure forms of emotional empathy, pure forms of compassion and that pure form of emotional empathy was intolerable for him even a practiced monk. And yeah, I think that I would say that empathic distress is what occurs when you encounter somebody who's suffering enormously and you have that unadulterated sharing of their emotion without anything to do about it,.
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