The Importance of Empathy

Empathy: The ability to understand someone else's feelings as if they are your own.

What I learnt:

Empathy Can Change the World:

1. Empathy takes work and practice, and it requires for us to stop thinking of ourselves but to think of others. 
2. Empathy encourages peoples hope, peoples love, and peoples tolerance.
3. Getting out your comfort zone is a great way to make people smile.

"If we could see insider other's heart":

1. Peoples expression don't always show what they are going through or feeling.
2. It's easy for some people not to notice when someone is feeling down because something good just happened to them.
3. People can't always notice when something is wrong with someone.

Why I think empathy is important:
I think empathy is important because, if we could not feel or understand the same feeling as someone then sometimes we could go overboard with our actions without knowing it.

A video I have watched and notes about it:

Empathy is an active attempt to understand another persons perspective their emotions and in essence their reality. 

We are social animals and our ability to communicate and understand each others emotional states is key to maintaining a relationship. 

It is little wonder that the ability to empathise is hardwired directly into our brains.