“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” You might be familiar with that saying, it is one I often heard teachers say at school to reassure me/others when people were being nasty. I think the idea is we were supposed to use that as a comeback when we were…
Tag: compassion
Empathy, compassion, personality, attitudes: can people change?
An interesting article on empathy and change… There is plenty of evidence that empathy can be taught in childhood, but it gets more complicated when it comes to adults, especially when it is forced. Can people change? That’s the question behind the multibillion-dollar self-help industry, the proliferation of blogs and podcasts that promise to make you…
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