You're such a buzzkill.

I'm Angela Duckworth.

I'm Mike Mann and you're listening to no stupid questions.

Today on the show, which is more important?

Sympathy or empathy.

I don't really know how much a person can truly empathize with another person.

Empathize, not sympathize, but empathize. Mike, we got this really interesting question from a listener named Karina, and I am going to read it to you.

Okay, let's go.

Hi Angela and Mike, what is the clinical difference between empathy and

sympathy? I understand the various semantic arguments and opinions about the differences, but I'm looking for

whether there are any established definitions within the scientific community and whether there's

research on differentiating between empathy and sympathy.

Typically, sympathy gets a bad rap,

as if it's just empathy done selfishly.

Are they really that different from each other?

Thank you so much. I love this question. You do? I do. I watch this. Okay, I could be hallucinating, but I recall watching this. It's been a long time. It could be on Iowa, but.

No, I'm serious, like,

I'm thinking back to when I was in elementary middle school

and high school,

I would come home, and I would like,

watch General Hospital,

and then I would watch the Oprah Winfrey show because

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