Amanda Morin
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first heard Aug 2016
last heard Jul 2025
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Sure.
I'm Amanda Morin.
I'm a parent to differently wired kids.
I'm a writer and senior expert with understood.org.
a former teacher and an author of a number of books, including the new one that is just coming out called What is Empathy a Bullying Storybook for Kids, which is why we're having this conversation today.
So it's a skill, I think, first of all.
And so when you say you're learning it over and over again, you keep learning it, I feel the same way.
I think it's a skill that we just develop over time.
Um, and I love the way Brene Brown talks about it as being different from sympathy.
I think empathy is
A way of being compassionate towards other people and learning to think of things in other perspectives and
putting aside your own feelings to sort through what they're thinking about, why it they may be acting the way they are, why you
maybe seeing um
them feel sad or feel happy or or any of those kinds of things.
I think the difference between empathy and sympathy is really important because when we look at somebody with sympathy, it's more of a sort of like, this is happening to you and I feel
sorry that this is happening to you, rather than I'm here with you in the middle of this experience.
And I think that's what empathy really is, is that compassion to be there with somebody.
and be part of their experience without making them
Other than you.
I hadn't actually thought about that, but I don't remember that as part of my childhood either.
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