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A smart note about empathy

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Lance Cummings
Aug 19, 2021
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A smart note about empathy

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Empathy comes from the Greek word, empatheia, or “into feeling” (Jamison, 2014, p.36). To be empathetic doesn’t mean just feeling sorry for someone. True empathy is about entering into a person’s pain, like entering another room or another country. True empathy requires movement … not just action. Yo…

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