Mental Health - Widower Experience (WX)

Empathy is fundamental to emotional intelligence - this is beyond all question. I read an interesting study by Sarah Konrath , college students in 2010 had 40% less empathy than college students had back in 1979.  Empathy is our ability to imagine life from another's perspective, to walk in someone else's shoes .  And here are some ways to jumpstart your empathic imagination.  Play a game I call five fingers perspectives and it is based on a design thinking method. Let's do it, I tell a story that typically generates a negative judgment. For example, you're a team member and you say hi to your trainer / coach / manager in the hallway, but she walks right by you without saying a word. Your assumption is, oh, she hates me or what a snob! Now your job is to create five explanations that assume no ill will on the part of your trainer / coach / manager.  Let's try it here, pause your reading and think of five innocent reasons that it could explain that behavior.  So...

Feeling to stand or even work in somebody else’s shoes, to anticipate how they see through their eyes, feel what they feel, that’s how good life can happen, good relations run and peace exist. And it’s up to me, you and evryone who is open to be empathic to let it happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world. Authentic Life and Empathy Living an authentic life was always something I did. I defined myself as someone who isn’t afraid to be true to who I am, including my personality, values, and principles in life. I didn't bother compromising the entirety of who I am just for the comfort of others. Rather, I most often stuck to who I am regardless of what others think of me. But as I grow older, and faced a number of really challenging things in live including a few on a knife edge - step by step I realized I can live even more authentic and honest when I let people closer at me and that I can grow by that. I learned that a team, a society, a family is more tha...

When a friend is challenged by a physical problem, like a health issue, or an emotional problem, like a breakup from a beloved person, romantic partner or animal, we want stand by them - being able to support her or him in a way that is both helpful and supportive. Whether they are suffering from some misfortune, loss, or challenging experience, how do we respond in a way that spread and share warmth and understanding? Do we offer sympathy or empathy? And what is the difference - and both has its time and can be beneficial or not that good. Sympathy and empathy are similar, BUT sympathy or empathy are different in how they can or will make the other who is suffering feel. Empathy is a sense that you can understand and share the feelings of another. As User Experience Designer as person with a few experience in my life - I firmly believe that this "shared" experience can generate a profound understanding because you attempt to know what it’s like to “walk in their shoes.” We a...