How Empathy Can Change Your Decision Making

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🗓️ 22 November 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Listen to my Morning Monologue: I’m sharing my take on pressing issues, enlightening research on human behavior, answering questions I get by email, and my favorite, most instructive interactions with callers. Everything you’ll hear is designed to help you become a better spouse, parent, family member, co-worker, friend, and human being. It’s the free therapy you need! Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:25.0	This is interesting. It was on empathy. I got this the other day and I've been holding it
0:30.8	and I'd like to read it to you now and frankly opinion you have, thoughts or feelings about it, call me.
0:43.0	But first hear it out.
0:45.6	I write to you from a position of intellectual curiosity through the immediate catalyst,
0:53.3	though the immediate catalyst for this correspondence, is a rather
0:57.5	decidedly less lofty, a rat infestation for several weeks now. My humble dwelling has been, to put
1:07.9	it mildly, an acoustic nightmare, courtesy of a nocturnal scuttling horde.
1:14.8	Their incessant scratching, and I can only assume general rodent revelry,
1:21.0	have made a proper night's sleep in increasingly scarce commodity.
1:26.9	Yes.
1:28.6	Dramatic writing.
1:30.1	Love it, though.
1:31.6	My response, Dr. Laura, was pragmatic.
1:34.4	Perhaps even ruthlessly so.
1:37.7	The application of chemical agents.
1:40.9	For days, the goal was simple eradication.
1:45.2	I saw them not as creatures, but as a problem.
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