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Empathy: Overrated?

By Spencer Kornhaber — 2015

Be kind, show understanding, do good—but, some scientists say, don’t try to feel others’ pain.

Read on www.theatlantic.com

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The Power of Kindness: Why Empathy Is Essential in Everyday Life

As a veteran emergency room physician, Dr. Brian Goldman has a successful career setting broken bones, curing pneumonia and otherwise pulling people back from the brink of medical emergency. He always believed that caring came naturally to physicians.

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Dr. Brian Goldman
2019
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The Kindness Formula: Caring + Character = Success

Just when we need an uplifting book and a roadmap to restoring our culture, “The Kindness Formula” has been written. A lifelong quest to simply make a better world is manifested so eloquently in this book.

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Jim Olayos
2020
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Deep Kindness: A Revolutionary Guide for the Way We Think, Talk, and Act in Kindness

Spread meaningful kindness in your everyday life with this essential guidebook to making the world a kinder, more accepting place. Practicing kindness is an essential step in helping to repair a world that has grown to be more divisive, lonely, and anxious than ever.

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Houston Kraft
2020
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The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life (Tenth Anniversary Edition)

When The Power of Kindness first appeared in 2006 it thrilled and challenged readers with one audacious promise: Your acts of generosity and decency are the secret to a fuller, more satisfying life. Kindness is not some squishy virtue, but the very key to your own happiness.

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Piero Ferrucci, The Dalai Lama (preface)
2016
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The Power of Empathy: Helen Riess at TEDxMiddlebury

Dr. Riess is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Riess has devoted her career to research on the neuroscience and art of the patient-doctor relationship and teaching psychiatry residents and medical students.

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2013
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Easy Ways to Practice Empathy in Your Own Life | Gwen Yi Wong | TEDxMonashUniversityMalaysia

In our busy, technologically-driven world, we need empathy more than ever. It’s, as social entrepreneur Gwen Yi Wong puts it, “the capacity to see parts of yourself in everybody else.” And it all starts with showing up for the people in our lives and really listening to them.

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2020
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A Radical Experiment in Empathy: Sam Richards at TEDxPSU

Sam Richards is a sociologist and award-winning teacher who has been inspiring undergraduate students at Penn State since 1990.

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2010
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The Healing Power of Empathy: True Stories About Transforming Relationships

Empathy is an essential leadership skill and a cornerstone of good relationships—but it can be hard to access when it’s most needed. Luckily, empathy is also a learnable skill.

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Mary Goyer (editor)
2019
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The Future of Feeling: Building Empathy in a Tech-Obsessed World

An insightful exploration of what social media, AI, robot technology, and the digital world are doing to our relationships with each other and with ourselves. There’s no doubt that technology has made it easier to communicate.

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Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips
2020
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Mirroring People: The Science of Empathy and How We Connect with Others

What accounts for our remarkable ability to get inside another person's head--to know what he or she is thinking and feeling? Marco Iacoboni, a leading neuroscientist, explains the groundbreaking research into mirror neurons, the "smart cells" in our brain that allow us to understand others.

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Marco Iacoboni
2009
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