Learning Challenge: Empathy

Empathy is a wondrous thing. It allows us to consciously place ourselves in someone else's position and see things from their point of view. In a way, we can feel what they feel. Now, we can't always know everything that's going on in their lives, or what past experiences could be contributing to the way they are feeling, but we can just try and understand the place they are coming from a little bit better. When you understand a person's motivations, fears, and feelings it is much harder to disregard them as a person. If everyone in the world showed a little more empathy, I believe we could make our world a truly better place.

Empathy
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