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Practice Listening: Select Missing Word ID: #36387 Medium Grow Your Empathy
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It's amazing just think about this the next time you're talking to somebody: how long do you talk to somebody you've just met before you really notice what color their eyes are? What shape is their eyebrow? What color clothing are they wearing? If it's a woman or a man., are they wearing jewelry? What is it? Where did it come from? How are they sitting? What clue am I getting from them? We don't notice one another nearly as much as we think we do. And I found it has built up my empathy at least I think it has. But I find myself much more comfortable with other people. This is an amazing thing: I find other people less annoying! Isn't that funny. Because I get a little more empathy about what they're going through or what I think they’re going through or what I can hear from things they say, and instead of being annoyed by them I think: 'I think I know where this is coming from and it explains it' And just getting the explanation of what might otherwise be annoying behavior or an annoying thing they're saying, the annoyance kind of evaporates. It's not that empathy is making me a better person, it just gives me a little more patience. I find—and I think other people who have studied empathy have found that there's more patience associated with...
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