Episode 13

Summary:

Welcome to Happiness Simplified, a weekly podcast about the

simple things that can make your life awesome. In Episode #13 Kayvon and Dai

talk about empathy. Listen in to hear about putting yourself in someone else’s

shoes, how empathy is a skill like any other, and what you can do to develop

it.

Time Stamped Show Notes:

●     00:40

– Introduction

●     01:43

– “Empathy is the most under-utilized human emotion”

●     02:15

– Empathy is both and emotion and a skill

●     03:22

– Dealing with your own challenges lets you get closer to how other people are

feeling

●     04:20

– Kayvon had English as a second language - so he knows the definition of

‘empathy’ and ‘sympathy’

●     05:25

– Sympathy is acknowledging others’ emotions - empathy is understanding them

●     06:30

– People are very quick to judge

●     07:50

– How do you go about teaching yourself empathy?

●     09:00

– Life experience helps to produce empathy

●     11:30

– Sometimes there is too much of an experience gap to empathise

●     15:00

– Bedside manner - how do doctors manage empathy?

●     17:20

– Patients are helped by a doctor’s empathy

●     19:15

– Parents want nothing more than to make their kids’ sadness go away

●     20:15

– Empathy is a skill that we need to practice

●     21:02

– Try to put yourself in someone else’s shoes before the next episode

●     21:30

– Tell us how it goes! We’d love to hear back from you.

 

3 Key Points:

1.       Empathy

isn’t practised enough - people are often quick to judge

2.       To

practise empathy, turn to your own experiences. When have you felt something

similar?

3.      

Honest connections rely on empathy

 

Credits

Show Notes provided

by Mallard Creatives