#177 Ask The Expert: Empathy with Roman Krznaric

Squiggly Careers

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Business, Management, Careers

4.9 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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In this week's Ask the Expert Sarah interviews philosopher and author Roman Krznaric. Together they discuss how we can all become more empathetic (at work and in the rest of our lives) through making imaginative leaps and being intentional in how we craft our conversations. Roman shares why it can be helpful to build empathy with our enemies, practical ideas for empathy in action and his hopes for how, together, we can create an empathy revolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and thank you for listening to the Squiggly Careers podcast. I'm Sarah Ellis, one of your hosts,
0:07.8	and welcome to our Ask the Expert second series. The idea of these conversations is to continue
0:13.5	exploring specific skills that we hope will help us all as we continue to navigate our careers
0:19.4	and a world of work that has got a whole lot
0:21.9	squigglyer in 2020. In today's episode, I'm talking about empathy with philosopher and author
0:27.5	Roman Krasnurik. I've been following Roman's work for at least 10 years now and I've always
0:32.7	really admired his ability to explore the big questions about the lives that we lead and the work
0:38.9	that we do in a way that feels useful and accessible for everyone. And his book, Wonderbox,
0:45.0	is definitely in one of my top five most recommended nonfiction reads. And today we're really
0:50.5	exploring one of his other books, which is about empathy, why it matters and how to get it.
0:56.0	Roman's perspective on empathy is really powerful. And I could have listened to his words of wisdom all day.
1:02.1	It's such a pleasure to speak to him. But I think what you'll find in this 15 minute conversation is lots of practical ideas and actions and habits that we can all start to form and really think
1:13.5	about to develop and improve our empathy. And we discuss kind of why that's so important and so
1:20.0	helpful for the work that we do, but also the world that we live in. And just before we get
1:25.1	started, we always want to say thank you to our partner for this
1:27.7	series, the Bupa Foundation. Without the Bupa Foundation, we couldn't make these conversations
1:32.6	happen. The Bupa Foundation are a charity and their purpose is all about helping people live longer,
1:38.2	happier and healthier lives. If you have chance to listen to a new podcast, they've just
1:42.7	launched one called Resilience
1:44.2	and the thing that I love about that podcast, it's stories from everyday people that you probably
1:50.6	won't hear on any other podcasts and those people talking about some of the extraordinary things
1:55.6	that they've achieved and how they've been resilient and I find that really fascinating.
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