#423 Skills Sprint: Empathy
Squiggly Careers
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🗓️ 21 August 2024
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| 0:00.0 | 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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