Leslie Jamison
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The Empathy Exams
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Suffering is not a competition, but a shared human condition.
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Empathy can be a form of activism, a way to bring attention to the experiences of others.
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To truly empathize, we must confront our own experiences with pain and loss.
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Empathy is not just about feeling for someone; it’s about feeling with them.
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The act of empathy requires us to be vulnerable, to open ourselves to others’ pain.
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In the end, we are all just trying to make sense of our own suffering.
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The experience of pain is a universal one, but the way we understand it is inherently personal.
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We need to learn how to listen to other people’s stories, and to let them change us.
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Art can be a bridge to empathy, a means to understand lives we don’t live.
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The stories we tell ourselves shape the way we interact with the world.
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