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Tay Zonday
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If I eat a big meal, I often burp loudly. If I see a person burp loudly and say “you seem like you ate a big meal”— it’s an effort to empathize. If I am desperate, suicidal, homicidal and boiling over with rage—as has sometimes been the case because my 42-year life is a human life with a spectrum of experiences—I express ideas with a certain tone. If I see that tone and casually note “you seem like you’re desperate, suicidal, homicidal and boiling over with rage” it’s an effort to empathize just like my followup when I see a loud burp. The person who burps loudly might not have eaten a big meal. The person using tones I’ve used in some states of mind might not have those states of mind. Empathy and attempting to connect about common human experience is inexact and imperfect. Empathy involves using one’s own feeling references to try to identify with what a person feels. Empathetic dialogue is a back-and-forth of non-judgmental earnest description and earnest correction.
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EdisonChen不是陈冠希
@edisonchen
Empathy is a gift
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