I'm pulling up a driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time to drive to work.

Okay, well today's podcast is all about empathy.

So this is based on an article that I wrote.

Real quick, a lot of people ask me, occasionally I will overlap

topics I wrote in a column that also will do my podcast. People

are like, why would you do that? Uh, and the answer is, uh, the data shows there's actually,

well, there's a bunch of people that both read my column and listen to my podcast. There's a

whole number of people that listen to my podcast that do not read my column. Uh, so one of the

reasons I definitely redo certain things, um things is because there's an audience that

that doesn't know them. The other reason is even if you have read my article, the podcast is

30 minutes long and lets me go into detail a little more than I did in the article. So even for those

that read the article, there should be extra details here for those that did. But anyway, on to

empathy. Okay, so the first thing I explained in my column was, I believe empathy is broken into

two parts. So the first part is understanding what other people care about. And the second part

is connecting to the emotion they have about that thing.

And so my advice in the column and talking about it, well, I'm sorry, let me do the lead-in.

I talk a lot about various skills that I believe game designers need.

And so one of the skills is empathy.

And once again, I define empathy as a two-part thing understanding what other people care about and then connecting to the emotion that they have about

that thing so i'm going to go in detail about all this um but the reason real quickly before we get

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