How to maintain empathy? We discuss it on the podcast “Who Would Talk”

In the third season of the conversational podcast “Who Would Talk,” the hosts Mikhail Volnykh and Daria Bakina, together with psychologist Elena Kotova respond to letters from Lifehacker’s friends - authors of famous audio shows, bloggers and media managers.

The topic for the new episode appeared thanks to a letter from Anastasia Burdina, author of the podcast “Feather sharks». With her input, we discuss what to do when empathy disappears, is it possible to restore this ability, why we empathize with people we don’t know personally, and is it possible to learn to imitate compassion.

03:50 — what is empathy from a psychological point of view.

09:47 - where does this feeling come from: is it present in a person from birth or is it gradually brought up.

16:15 — whether empathy can benefit the empath himself.

21:57 - how to restore the lost sense of compassion and empathy.

25:11 - when your empathy “doesn’t work” is definitely bad or not.

29:06 — how an overly impressionable person can develop protection against excessive empathy.

32:42 — summing up the results of the release.

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