In my humble opinion: Power of Empathy

Collapsing economy and global unrest: What we need today is empathy - the ability to re-create another person’s perspective, to experience the world from the other’s point of view.

It may be impossible to ever experience another’s perspective completely, but with enough effort we can certainly gain a better idea of how the world appears to him/her.

Empathy involves three dimensions – perspective taking, emotional dimension, and genuine concern.

The need of the day is empathy, which is very important in our personal and also in our professional lives.

We all experience environments, situations that are tough master: teaching us lessons the hard way, but in the end train us to be more analytical, adaptive and assertive, all at the same time.

All I can say for sure is that I have learnt the fact that every situation is unique and that we have to pick our battles wisely.

Studies show that there are four ways to deal with a situation - “I’m Right, You’re Wrong,” approach “You’re Right, I’m Wrong” approach, “Both Right, Both Wrong” approach and “The Issue Isn’t As Important As It Seems” approach.

No one knows which approach works best or if there is a certain combination that may work best.

As a matter of fact there is a fair amount of truth in all four perspectives the only thing that is required is a bit of coordination and a lot of empathy.

We need to connect beyond the social, economic and political spheres and the only way we can do that is if we re-create another person’s perspective, to experience the world from the other’s point of view.