The word empathy is used a lot. Sometimes it is confused with sympathy, but they are different. When you feel sympathy for somebody those are your feelings, experienced by you. Sympathy involves what ...

WASHINGTON D.C. - MARCH 17: Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) is photographed in his offices in the Canon House office building on March 17, 2009 in Washington, D.C. The former Big Six leader of the civil ...

Smart leaders bet on the power of empathy. Perhaps the easiest way to define empathy is to discuss what it is not: empathy is not ego. In other words, empathy is not a focus on yourself, your goals, ...

Finding empathy has been on my mind this holiday season. I often recall one of my favorite quotes from Atticus in “To Kill a Mockingbird”: “First of all, if you learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get ...

Wikipedia defines empathy as "the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference ... the capacity to place oneself in another's position." That ...