Dr. Brene Brown on empathy

Empathy excerpts​

• Empathy fuels connection. Sympathy fuels disconnection.
• Elements of empathy: Perspective-taking, staying out of judgment, recognizing emotion in other people, communicating that.
• In order to connect with you, I have to connect with something in me that knows that feeling.
• When someone shares something difficult, we tend to “silver lining” it.
• Rarely, if ever, does an empathic response start with, “At least . . .”
• Rarely can a response make something better. What makes something better is connection.