Quotes About Empathy

Si su público no se identifica con su problema, es probable que no les interese escuchar la resolución de su historia.

LO MÁS HERMOSO DEL FACTOR yo-a-nosotros es que subraya la esencia del storytelling para ganar como una experiencia compartida.

Contar una historia es un proceso bidireccional, que hace participar e, idealmente, beneficia tanto al narrador como al oyente.

Haga que su audiencia se ponga en el lugar de su héroe. • Dirija desde el corazón, no desde la cabeza. • Utilice el factor sorpresa. • Las historias con éxito convierten el «yo» en «nosotros»: ¡armonice sus intereses! • Asegúrese que su historia les deje claro cómo se van a beneficiar.

One of the children excitedly jumped in with, "Yeah, the bad guy broke the window and …" Susie immediately reframed the narrative. "Not a bad guy. He just made a decision for his own benefit and didn't consider other people.

However, they must also be able to count on respect and freedom from personal judgment.

Do you think that when Barack Obama was a young boy in kindergarten, do think that sometimes he made mistakes?

asking myself from time to time if it might be possible to teach English in such a way that people would stop killing each other

Es gibt nur eine Art und Weise, eine andere Kultur zu verstehen. Sie zu leben. In sie einzuziehen, darum zu bitten, als Gast geduldet zu werden, die Sprache zu lernen. Irgendwann kommt dann vielleicht das Verständnis. Es wird dann immer wortlos sein. In dem Moment, in dem man das Fremde begreift, verliert man den Drang, es zu erklären. Ein Phänomen erklären heißt, sich davon entfernen.

No person can open another person, All we can do is wait. And then work with the openness when it occur.s.

In the long run, you can never be any better than your surroundings. When you are in the company of people who look down upon themselves as though they are animals, you, too, become like an animal. Or worse, because animals do not despise themselves.

It will never be easy for me to watch men cry. Maybe because I know how fatal crying is to their self-respect. Maybe because it's so unusual for them that it always carries them back to their childhood. The mechanic has reached the stage where

This could be one reason I've never burdened my life with children—I've thought too much about why people lose the courage to look each other in the eye.

Very few people know how to listen. Their haste pulls them out of the conversation, or they try internally to improve the situation, or they're preparing what their entrance will be when you shut up and it's their turn to step on stage.

I sit there in total silence. It's always interesting to leave Europeans in silence. For them it's a vacuum in which the tension grows and converges toward the intolerable.

You can learn something about your fellow human beings from what they write in the margin

Since we met, ever since that first time when we each sat on a toilet, up against the radiator, ever since then I have never been completely alone, even after you left me. Before that there had never really been anything in my life. But once someone has stood under the cold shower just so that you can stay under the warm one, then you can never really be totally alone again.

Loneliness is a source of loathsome ice-cold suffering, the suffering of unreality. At such times we need people to teach us that we're not really so far gone.

It was nearly winter. I had just seen a friend die, and was again beginning to take pleasure in my own existence. This friend, who thought of himself as the "first man to experience pain", had nevertheless tried up to the last moment to wish death away. I was thankful for all things and decreed: Enjoy yourself, take advantage of your days of good health.

In a sense, the mentally deranged and feebleminded were my guardian angels, and when I hadn't seen any of them in a long time, the sight of an idiot gave me a sudden burst of health and strength.

Love is not a feeling.  It's an ability.

smiles and friendly nods are like fabric softeners for the face.

Sometimes now I think just making it through a day is the point. Practically a triumph, don't you think? If you don't melt down or kill anyone or just give up? If you happen to be kind, or help someone else, or create something beautiful, well, you've really done something to crow about.

She thought that one might not make a dent in the Great Sadness, but one could help make another person whole.