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Squiggly Careers

#423 Skills Sprint: Empathy

Squiggly Careers

AmazingIf

Business, Management, Careers

4.9838 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

This is episode 13 of 20 in the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint. Today, Helen and Sarah talk about empathy and how understanding different people's perspectives can help you build better relationships and increase your self-awareness. New to our Sprint? Our Skills Sprint is designed to help you create a regular learning habit to support your squiggly career development. ⁠ ⁠ Each episode in the series is less than 7 minutes long and has ideas for action and recommended resources on a specific topic. ⁠ 1. Sign up for the sprint and receive a free guide to get started: https://bit.ly/skillssprint2024 2. Watch our Sprint on YouTube: https://bit.ly/scss-playlist 3. Read our books ‘The Squiggly Career’ and ‘You Coach You’: https://www.amazingif.com/books/ If you have any questions or feedback (which we love!) you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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skill number 13 is empathy and I think if you don't have empathy you limit your learning and when

0:10.9

you see the world through other people's eyes and you understand different people's perspectives

0:15.7

you also build better relationships and we had a brilliant guy on the podcast previously called

0:21.8

Roman Krasnarek who's written a book on empathy and who talks a lot about empathy and how

0:26.5

useful it is in terms of just increasing our awareness and actually to impact our actions as well

0:33.2

so that we don't just keep doing what we think is the right thing to do. And he has this great

0:38.0

quote and he's a philosopher, quite a practical philosopher, but he is a philosopher. So you can,

0:42.4

I think you can hear that in this quote. He says, empathy is the art of stepping imaginatively

0:47.4

into the shoes of another person and understanding their feelings and perspectives and using

0:53.4

that understanding to guide your own

0:55.7

actions. For those you who do listen to the podcast, you will know I am a big Roman fan.

1:00.2

And so his work has really influenced me. Actually, even when he first started talking about jobs,

1:05.5

he wrote a great book about fulfillment at work and all about kind of the history of work.

1:10.3

And I'm not sure we would have even got some of the things on Squiggly without him.

1:13.7

So I do fangirl him a little bit and read everything that he does.

1:17.1

He once did a crowd funder, you know, for one of his books.

1:20.4

So my name is in one of his books.

1:23.0

That's my clove to fame.

1:24.2

I love that you love that.

1:25.8

I do love that.

1:26.7

I've got it on my bookshelf makes you really happy.

1:29.3

So Helen, practically...

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