You 2.0: The Empathy Gym

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

Arts, Science, Performing Arts, Social Sciences

4.6 • 40.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Some people are good at putting themselves in another person's shoes. Others may struggle to relate. But psychologist Jamil Zaki argues that empathy isn't a fixed trait. This week: how to exercise our empathetic muscles. It's the first episode in our You 2.0 summer series.

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Brain from NPR.
0:02.6	I'm Shankar Vedanta.
0:04.4	In May 2007, an artist living in Chicago moved into a new place.
0:10.4	It was a small room with white walls.
0:13.6	The interior design was minimalist.
0:17.1	There was a bed, a desk, a computer, a lamp,
0:22.2	and a paintball gun.
0:24.5	A fix to the gun was a webcam.
0:29.3	It live streamed the room to the internet.
0:32.1	Anyone could look in and anyone could take control of the gun,
0:36.0	aim, and fire.
0:38.1	At all hours of the day and night, the paintball gun would spring to life
0:42.5	and begin shooting yellow pellets into the room.
0:45.5	Some hit the walls or the furniture.
0:48.0	Some hit the artist.
0:50.8	I was shot at 70,000 times and I received 80 million hits on the internet
0:58.9	from 128 countries.
1:02.5	Wafa Bilal spent one whole month in the room, targeted tens of thousands of times
1:08.0	by random strangers around the world.
1:12.1	Why would he choose to do this?
1:20.8	Wafa was born and raised in Iraq.
1:24.0	He came to the US in the early 90s.
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