Empathy Expert Brad Meltzer Shares His Secrets

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🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Dear Humans,

If you’re looking to feel hopeful and seeking signs of empathy, today’s new episode is for you! This week on The God Pod, God and Jesus are joined by bestselling author Brad Meltzer to discuss his new book, Make Magic: The Book of Inspiration You Didn’t Know You Needed!

We discuss:

How Brad turned a beloved commencement speech he wrote into his new book, and why his message resonates with humans.
How he used stories of rejection to inspire his son’s graduating class.
Empathy once again comes up in our conversations with the Humans, and Brad explains what the internet is designed to do.
His incredible, wide-ranging career: From writing thrillers to writing comics to writing the obituary for the one and only Stan Lee!
Why comics have always been “woke,” and Brad traces it back to some of Stan Lee’s earliest comics.
Another upcoming book he has in the works about The Beatles, for children!

Don’t miss this inspiring, hopeful, and thought episode of The God Pod!

Love,

God

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0:00.0	This week on the God Pod.
0:02.7	And you want to know how to get more empathy, all you have to do is want to have more empathy.
0:07.7	So if you think of your freshman year at college is when you make the most new friends, why?
0:13.3	Because you're open to making new friends.
0:15.8	You just decide I'm going to be open to making as many as I can, and they come.
0:19.7	And that's the same with empathy.
0:21.0	So if we can, again, just be like, you know what? I'm going to show some kindness even though
0:24.9	I'm mad at that person. If we can be better, I always say, be better than what angers you.
0:29.8	Be better than what angers you. And that's how you get there.
0:35.4	When did they make Spider-Man woke?
0:38.1	If great power comes what?
0:39.8	Shut up.
0:40.1	Right.
0:40.5	I mean, that's the thing.
0:41.2	It's like anyone who says that,
0:42.7	and listen,
0:43.2	I'm someone who's written Spider-Man,
0:44.5	who's written Superman,
0:45.3	who's written Batman,
0:46.3	like...
0:46.4	Really?
0:47.1	Oh, yeah, man.
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