Often I'm confused at the concept of building or teaching or learning how to be empathetic. I think empathy is something that is native to individuals you can learn how to pretend to be empathetic but to actually feel another person's pain as your own? That's an assumption.
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I think if you have the capacity to feel it, you can learn the skills for recognising it so that there is something to feel. The learning part is learning how to mentally project yourself into their position so as to imagine how it feels to them.
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That would simply be projecting sympathy otherwise empathy is actually feeling the pain not a projection and recognition that is sympathy
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I think it's also putting yourself into a position where if you're able to experience empathy, you have a chance to—I don't think the empathy itself can be learnt, but I think openness to it probably can.
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Replying to @timtfj
Possibly true I don't have any evidence one way or the other and I don't think anybody does but they act as if they do.

Aug 4, 2022 · 9:43 PM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag
I think you're right, because it's impossible in principle to tell whether what you're subjectively experiencing represents someone else's subjective experience. You're outside of it, and it can only be known from inside.
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