Tag: empathy
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Some People
Some people aren't on this list. Shared from a post by Jason Kottke.
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Engineering Empathy
This was a talk I gave at an internal R&D conference my last week at Workiva. I got a lot of positive feedback on the talk, so I figured I would share it with a wider audience. Be warned: it’s long. Feel free to read each section separately, though they largely tie together.
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Extremely Positive People Aren't as Good at Empathy | Big Think
People with extremely sunny attitudes find it difficult to empathize with people who are recounting a negative experience, according to a study recently published at PLOS ONE. Ironically, positive people also reported being better at empathizing than did people who labelled themselves as slightly less than bubbly...
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How Learning To Be Vulnerable Can Make Life Safer - Empathy increases Shell oil workers' safety by 83%
Men who worked on oil rigs lived by certain rules. They were tough. They worked under any conditions. They didn't ask questions. It was this way as far back as Tommy Chreene, 60, who started working on rigs in the Gulf of Mexico back when he was 15, can remember.
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Helpless - Post Script
Yawny morning.
Got to sleep eventually. Basically, my friend's problems can't be solved by anybody but themselves. I'm going to offer to be there, be supportive, and to help them in any way they can, but in the end, what's troubling them can't be solved by anybody else. Will try to get a chance to speak … -
Helpless
I can't sleep.
For the last week or so, I've talked a little every day or two with a really good friend of mine who is, unfortunately, going through some problems at the moment. They'd been quite understating and evasive about talking about them at length until yesterday, when they suddenly revealed to me quite how …