Empathy Lessons

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• Top 30 Empathy Lessons for Life, the book

  By Lou Agosta on March 26, 2018

  

  This book contains some thirty (30) empathy lessons for life. A key empathy lesson that explicitly addresses empathy training: remove the resistance to empathy—obstacles such as cynicism, shame, guilt, aggression, narcissism, devaluing language, and so on—and empathy spontaneously shows up, comes… Read More ›

• Top Ten (10) Empathy Lessons Trending in the New Year 2018

  By Lou Agosta on January 7, 2018

  

  Here are Empathy Lessons for the New Year ahead. You know what would really interest me? To hear from you (dear reader) what is your empathy lesson? Whether inspired by this list or your own experience over the winter holiday… Read More ›

• Empathy Lesson: Empathy, Capitalist Tool

  By Lou Agosta on October 29, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Empathy, Capitalist Tool: In this video (two parts) – Lou Agosta is interviewed by Brandon Hamilton about business and empathy on the Russ Meeks Speaks show (Channel 21, Chicago (RCN)) on October 20, 2017 / November 04, 2017. This is… Read More ›

• Historical Empathy and the 2nd Amendment: About Guns

  By Lou Agosta on October 3, 2017

  

  Putting ourselves in the situation of people who lived years ago in a different historical place and time is a challenge to our empathy. It requires historical empathy. How do we get “our heads around” a world that was fundamentally… Read More ›

• Empathy Lesson One: Empathy is Not Compassion

  By Lou Agosta on August 30, 2017

  

  Most people think that empathy is compassion; and, heavens knows, the world needs more compassion. But empathy and compassion are distinct.

• Empathy and Neuroscience Class: Register Now [UChicago Graham School]

  By Lou Agosta on March 4, 2017

  

  Empathy is oxygen for the soul. So if you are feeling short of breath due to life stresses, perhaps one needs expanded empathy. Get some here. This is what you need to know to register. Further details on the course content… Read More ›

• Psychiatry and Horror – in the Movies!

  By Lou Agosta on February 5, 2017

  

  In addition to mastering the unknown through its depiction, the “pay off” is to confront images of the fragmentation of the self, annihilation of the self, and loss of control of the self’s boundaries. That is perhaps why audiences are strangely attracted to horror films. They give a specific form to our most primitive fears, binding these deep fears to a specific something that can be objectified and can be overcome by the cinematic equivalent of the “cavalry to the rescue” or even by counter magic. It should be noted that people run from the theatre if they believe their lives are really in danger; but the views stay in their seats, having actually paid money to be frightened vicariously by the experience of watching a horror film.

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