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Sat, 17/09/2022 - 12:33pm — Carol

“We need to dispel the myth that empathy is ‘walking in someone else’s shoes.’ Rather than walking in your shoes, I need to learn how to listen to the story you tell about what it’s like in your shoes and believe you even when it doesn’t match my experiences..”

― Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience, 2021

 

“Empathy is not relating to an experience, it’s connecting to what someone is feeling about an experience.”
― Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience, 2021

 

Brené Brown Explains Why We Need to Rethink “Walking in Someone Else’s Shoes”

Brené Brown has been studying, teaching, and writing about human connection for more than 20 years—but it wasn’t until she started working on "Atlas of the Heart" that she realized she’d been laboring under one very common misunderstanding.

In this clip, Brown explains why we need to rethink the concept of “trying to walk in someone else’s shoes” if we truly want to understand each other better.

Watch more of her conversation with #Oprah here: https://trib.al/tA8ZTAt

Oprah Daily

1 December 2021 at 20:21 ·

 

 

“We need to dispel the myth that empathy is ‘walking in someone else’s shoes.’ Rather than walking in your shoes... Brené Brown
“We need to dispel the myth that empathy is ‘walking in someone else’s shoes.’ Rather than walking in your shoes... Brené Brown