Jesse Meijers

A lesson in empathy – How to place yourself in someone else’s shoes

Placing yourself in someone else's shoes can be extremely hard. Recently I wrote an article about a lesson we can learn from Abraham Lincoln. Today, I found this fantastic empathy experiment on Ted.com. It is a great experiment and will take you on a journey to understand the world from the perspective of others.

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A lesson in empathy by Abraham Lincoln

One thing that I used to be rather bad at, was empathy. Placing myself in someone else's shoes was hard for me. For an entrepreneur this is very important, it is a lesson worth learning. The story that helped me learn this lesson is about Abraham Lincoln, a very inspiring man. More recently, there was a very interesting TED presentation on the same topic, yet from a completely different perspective. These two sources will help you become more emphatic in no time!

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