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Podcast: Life Examined
Episode: Empathy: The superpower of human connection
Description: Judith Orloff, UCLA clinical psychiatrist and author of The Genius of Empathy: Practical Skills to Heal Your Sensitive Self, Your Relationships, and the World, explains that empathy is what connects us. Itâs the ability to care, to listen, and to open our hearts. The practice of empathy, Orloff says, is a simple yet âprecious giftâ and that displaying empathy is the âbest of who we are.â Orloff also says being empathetic is âa way we can save our world because empathy is the key element in reaching out to people, even if you disagree with them, even if you don't like t...